Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...huge crowd as "our next President." About the streets "Murray-For-President" banners flapped in the drizzle. An Oklahoma band played "The Eyes of Texas Are Upon You." "We're All for Alfalfa Bill," said a scrawled note thrown out by the engineer of a Katy train speeding through Collinsville. Governor Murray was presented with a quilt on which had been embroidered his "Bread, Butter, Bacon, Beans" slogan. Unveiled was a 16-ft. monument in his honor, with a large photograph embedded under glass and inscribed: Born in Collinsville...
...mountains between Guayaquil and Quito, where rain had been pouring for a fortnight, there were heavy landslides. Telegraph lines were broken, train service suspended. Prices in Guayaquil skyrocketed. President Baquerizo Moreno's granddaughter applied the raw flesh of a Guayaquil beef to her blackened...
...University wrestlers will stay in Navy quarters while in Annapolis, as will also the Harvard basketball players who are accompanying the grapplers on the trip. The whole party will return to Cambridge by night train Monday...
Northwestern University announces apparently with some pride that it will enroll next fall six youthful prodigies between the ages of thirteen and fifteen. Who have met all the requirements for admission this projected establishment of a "mental hothouse" to train precocious young boys and ripen them into geniuses may seem alluring to such students, but will scarcely command the unqualified approval of educators...
Northwestern may train its prodigies minds; it will not be serving their best interests. Perhaps the best solution for the problem of the intellectually advanced student would be to retard him early in his school career rather than to delay his entrance into college after graduation from preparatory school. He would then suffer no loss of interest in intellectual matters when his powers were maturing, and could still enter college with the preparatory class with he graduated, fully equipped to participate in all branches of activity...