Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pensions, spent an exciting hour at Verdun last week. Charges had been made that although millions of francs are being spent on the new monument at Fort Douaumont heroic Verdun dead are not yet properly buried. Pausing only to invite reporters to accompany him, M. Champetier de Ribes took train from Paris to quash this rumor. At Verdun he discovered that not only are thousands "improperly buried," but at least 12,500 are not buried...
...dusty, loose-covered boxes, jumbled together under tattered sheets. Reporters ferreting for themselves discovered that thousands of other bodies lie buried so shallowly that each Spring thaw brings many to the surface. The Minister of Pensions stayed in Verdun only an hour, returned thoughtfully to Paris. On the train he brightened somewhat...
...community of Midland; but nobody liked him. He was closemouthed, closefisted, a hard worker, a hard master. He wanted to better Midland, give it a Methodist church, a bank, a grain elevator; but Midland did not want to be bettered, was not really sorry when one day the express train killed John Durken. Son Bruce came back from his Methodist college to be Midland's pastor. Better educated, more articulate a fanatic than his father, he raised more hell in Midland than old John had ever dreamed of or wanted...
...might be worth money; he stepped out and took Her by the collar. An hour later from a Manhattan police station to which the doorman had consigned her. Handler Ben Lewis of Lexington, Ky., removed his Great Dane. He explained that as he got off the train in the Pennsylvania station that morning Fionne von Loheland had slipped her leash and run away; he had been looking all over town for her. He was glad to get her back-Fionne was worth $12,000 to her master, Harkness Edwards. Lewis took her to Madison Square Garden and benched...
...figured at $40. Great problem to Air Ferries is to persuade enough commuters, of whom there are about 91,000 daily, that it is worth $1.50 to scoot across the bay in 6 min. instead of paying 21? for the 40-min. trip on one of the two boat-&-train ferry systems. But California financiers and airmen are optimistic about Air Ferries, point with pride to its record of 99% completion of schedule, no fatal accidents in the first year...