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Word: trained (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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With 2,000,000 men on the dole, with steel-trap Chancellor Philip Snowden set to catch every extravagance at the exchequer, thoughtful Britons learned last week that it costs $3.20 per mi. to run the Royal Train-empty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: $3.20 Per Mile, Empty | 9/22/1930 | See Source »

...from London to Balmoral, Scotland, whither the Court traveled in the Royal Train last month, whence it will soon return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: $3.20 Per Mile, Empty | 9/22/1930 | See Source »

King Alfonso of Spain lately went to Southampton, England, on a train whose chef, steward and pantryboy all were named King. Hearing that King George would be at the horse-racing at Sandown, Isle of Wight, the Kings (chef, steward and pantryboy) put purses on a horse named Cherry King. Cherry King came in first, paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 22, 1930 | 9/22/1930 | See Source »

...himself in a gaol cell. Making out what appeared to be a man hanging from a beam, Hart screamed, brought attendants who cut his drunken cellmate down. Then Roland Hart was told that an unknown had found him asleep in his auto on a grade crossing, had flagged a train just in time to save his life. Said Hart: "I'm glad I could give some one an even break...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Dupes | 9/22/1930 | See Source »

...Salinas, Calif., Alta Fickle, 20, obsessed with the idea that her right arm would kill someone, lay down on a railroad track, waited until a train came by and amputated the arm. Said she: "I am happy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Farm | 9/15/1930 | See Source »

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