Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Train Leaders...
...know peace, and that only by the most scientific preparation for war may war be delayed. Propaganda on nationalistic grounds is the chief method of convincing citizens of the benefits of military education. Patently, however, as has been said, the avowed purpose of military education at Harvard is to train leaders for possible future wars. There is a certain amount of propaganda to the effect that military training is the best method of training men physically, mentally, and morally for citizenship, but usually it is acknowledged that the purpose is to make officers of gentlemen...
...showed last week that a Wet Governor and a Wet Senator had been elected and the State's enforcement act repealed, Mrs. Peabody amazed her friends and relatives by renouncing her Massachusetts citizenship, putting a large For-Sale sign on "Green Walls," her Beverly estate, and taking the first train for Florida. Said...
...lovestory is used here as the basis for the first picture Ruth Roland has made in years. She is the wife of a businessman who, faithless and cruel, tries to thwart her divorce. He accuses her of intimacy with a former suitor whom she met by accident on the train. A little child is involved in the suit, and this secures the sure laugh that children's voices get on the microphone and also gives Miss Roland a chance to sing a lullaby. She talks, too, in a manner emphatically refined, and finally finds a way of escaping from troubles...
...Wahpeton, N. Dak., Nels Bervin's automobile stalled across a railroad track. Nels Bervin got out to crank. A train smashed the car to small bits, left Nels Bervin standing by the track holding the crank in his hand...