Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Governor Pinchot proposed a substitute plan for industrial police protection: to have the State pick, train and direct the officers, rent them to the companies in time of disturbance. Civil libertarians pointed out that under this plan all the taxpayers would have to pay for the officers until they were called out by an industrial concern; that persons injured by them would have redress against neither State nor private company, that the establishment of such a system would put the commonwealth in the position of merchandising police protection...
Like the great actress Eleonora Duse, the great dancer Anna Pavlova last week died in a hotel, on tour, in a strange country.* In France, near Dijon, a railroad accident kept her waiting for hours in an unheated train. She caught cold and by the time she reached The Hague, planning to dance there, influenza had developed, also pleurisy. Death came swiftly, in three days. Operations and injections were useless. Pavlova's heart was weak. On the third day she roused from a coma and spoke to Victor Dandre, her husband and accompanist. She thought she was herself again, high...
...Harvard professor opened up a cat and beheld certain belly muscles tickling its heart. That was of such profound physiological import that the professor, Walter Bradford Cannon, a great physiologist, last week took train to Yale, which once gave him an honorary Doctor of Science degree, to tell the Yale Medical Society just what he had done, what he had seen, what it all meant...
Reporters (to Mr. Baker, being photographed before taking a train to Florida): Please give us an interview...
...claim of the public schools is that they train character. But character is an activity, not a state it is how a man acts, not how he is taught to act. Business is even more trench practical. If pays a man not for having capabilities but for exercising them. Until he exercises his ability he does not earn an income and can only be paid one out of kindness...