Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After laying a wreath on the Unknown Soldier's tomb at Arlington, Father Cox mustered his army, started on the 300-mi. trip back to Pittsburgh. (Expenses for returning 276 stragglers by train were defrayed by Pennsylvania's richest citizen, Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon.) Again, as they rumbled by, grave crowds watched them as though for the first time they were seeing a genuine sign of the times...
...week, Andrey Andreevitch Andreev, recently appointed Commissar for Transportation. Fortnight ago he utilized his new powers by condemning four railwaymen of the Trans-Siberia Railway to death for criminal negligence (TIME, Jan. 11). Last week he attempted to counteract this unfortunate impression by announcing that a special de luxe train on the Trans-Siberia run will in future make the trip from Poland to Manchuria in seven days instead of eight. The good impression did not last. Three days later news got around of an accident even more dreadful than usual...
Nine miles outside of Moscow a local train, packed with commuters, halted at a switch-head before taking a spur track. Without warning another local swept round the bend and smashed full into the standing train's rear, plowed through almost its entire length. Wooden cars splintered like match boxes, dead and dying were strewn along the right-of-way. Peasants running up from the fields did their best to pull maimed bodies from the wreckage. They were laid on the parallel track while telegraph operators wired Moscow frantically for help. Suddenly a freight train, proudly burdened with Soviet goods...
Observers, recalling a career in which Ray's extravagant self-adulation has never deterred him from any form of self-inflicted torture, wondered whether he had really passed the squirrel stage. For his first marathon Ray scorned to train, set off at a fast clip wearing the shoes he used for middle-distance running. Doctors cut off these shoes when the race was over. In them they found evidence of almost super-human endurance?two swollen purple lumps which were Ray's feet, chafed to the bone and caked with blood from broken blisters. Clarence De Mar, spindle-shanked Boston...
Died. Leander Colbert Gentle, 70, once congratulated by President Coolidge at the White House for being Champion Father of the South (29 children) ; killed by a train; in Atlanta...