Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...educational matters, England and America are slowly approaching a common point, by the simple process of moving in opposite directions. That common point is the point at which both nations shall train for leadership the best minds, carefully selected for capacity, and shall train also the less gifted minds for the no less important tasks of efficient, contented and self-respecting subordination...
...separation of the best minds is being attempted also in colleges and universities by honors schools, comprehensive examinations and exemption fom the compulsion of routine. The notable experiments now in train at Harvard and at Yale, anticipated by a generation in the thwarted plans of Woodrow Wilson as President of Princeton, are attempts to recapture the advantage of the old-fashioned American college, without loss of the advantage of the great university; and the magnificent gift by Mr. Edward S. Barkness to Phillips Exeter Academy is designed to make possible an experiment which will enable "students from secondary schools better...
...Japanese troop trains, preceded by an armored train and escorted by bombing planes, moved westward out of Mukden, occupying the "Heart of Manchuria...
...crude, elderly farmer to whom she is to be married by an uncle. She happens into the garage of a young engineer, Rodney Spencer, who feeds her, befriends her, falls in love with her. When her uncle comes to take her back, she runs away, gets on a carnival train, joins the show. By the time she sees Rodney (Clark Gable) again, she has been forced into a compromising situation with the carnival proprietor. Misunderstandings occur, but Susan Lenox is pretty enough to get along. She becomes mistress to a rich politician, has a friend find Rodney and bring...
...published a unique newspaper on a train, learned telegraphy in two months, got a job with the Western Union, went to Canada in 1864, then to Indianapolis, Louisville, Cincinnati, Memphis...