Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...group does not realize the seriousness of these incidents. The property damaged is a metro traffic compared to the burden placed upon the Boston Elevated because of their responsibility for the welfare of their passengers. Men who start these disturbances subject all passengers who may be on the train at the time to inconvenience as well as chance of serious injury. These passengers may sue the Boston Elevated for any harm that comes to them while on the train regardless of its nature. The Elevated must, therefore, protect its right as well as the rights of its passengers...
...wealth of material responded to the call for Freshman rowers in the Union meeting last night. About 80 men heard Coaches Whiteside and Haines outline the Weld Boat House today. The squad will train in the Leviathan in a few weeks when the ice goes out of the river...
...engineers arose, addressed the crowd: "There should be only one lone criminal on trial here today. That is the wretched man whose desire for death was the first cause of the accident." The "lone criminal" was a cobbler named Vyesyolov. Drunk, he staggered in front of a train. While the crew of that train was trying to extricate his body a second train ploughed into it. Peasants laid the wounded on a parallel track, a freight train ran over them. Those who were able to appreciate the grim humor of the situation recalled that the cobbler's name...
...Japanese did stay out of the International Settlement, but they did not stay out of Shanghai. By next nightfall 1,300 Japanese had landed with field pieces and machine guns. The ten warships were spotted at even intervals all up and down the river with their guns trained on the city, decks cleared and men at battle stations. Admiral Shiosawa threatened to occupy all the Chinese forts and barracks in the Shanghai district unless a full apology for the tousling of the monks, one of whom had died, was made, an indemnity paid, and the anti-Japanese boycott called...
Distant Drums. Scene of this eagerly written play is the old Oregon Trail. A wagon train of pioneers, finding itself behind schedule on the trek to the fertile fields of the Pacific, decides to take a short cut across the Idaho highlands. Most of the company are prosaic folk. One, however, is not. She is Eunice Wolfhill, young wife of the expedition's leader. He has married her so he can claim an extra 300 acres of Government land. She has married him for no apparent reason. Her fluttery, unnatural behavior leads the others to whisper that she has witch...