Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bedford's hair is grey, so is his mustache. The walls of his office are covered with pictures of his racing yachts and his horses. But the most prominent picture on his walls is one of his father. Many times they took an early morning train to Manhattan, played poker. Every winter F. T. Bedford would spend a month or so with his father at Lake Wales, Fla. Each admired the other. But years ago they made a rule never to discuss business together. The rule was very seldom broken even to mention such important matters as Corn Products...
...President!" For a moment the old, defeated man standing at the door of his Pullman did not reply. Then accepting the roses with a low bow, he said: "I would rather hear those words from you, Madame, than from the best qualified member of the National Assembly."* After the train steamed out, the crowd remained for some time, shouting "Vive Briand! Vive la Paix!" But even though news of this demonstration reached Geneva, no friend of cabinet rank was at the station except the Scotsman. "All That Is Best." It was said that M. Briand had come to Geneva only...
...diversions of Yale's Derby Day. It remained, last week, the chief holiday week-end of New Haven's spring. A quota of canoes, rocked by apparently inebriate paddlers, capsized above the dam. Presumably due to Depression, only half the seats were sold in the observation train. Critics who doubted the ability of the championship Cornell crew were embarrassed by the race at Derby. Cornell, in the unlucky west lane, did not bother to use a racing start, moved into an effortless paddle less than a length behind Yale & Princeton. Yale was rowing about 36 to Cornell...
Recently the newspapers carried a story about a girl in Missouri who won a $1,500 award from a railroad because a brakeman kicked her in the head to remove her from the path of an onrushing train...
...simple question was: Should the State authorize the cancer clinic? But in the train of that simple question came a most extraordinary range of considerations-the nature and cause of cancer; the nature and authenticity of the Coffey-Humber cancer treatment; medical ethics, human nature, public policy, money, fame, and even national politics. Representing great wealth, prestige, knowledge and political power, the contestants in this greatest medical fight of many a year in some degree represented buoyant, bouncing, sometimes crass California against balanced, urbane, sometimes effete New York...