Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chief of the defense committee, asked his father to help him because they get on well together and because Thomas Hitchcock Sr. is good at the sort of thing he will do for the committee. Every committeeman has some special job. Mr. Hitchcock Sr.'s will be to train the association's ponies. Carleton Burke, California poloist, was going to attend to this, but found he could not go east until August. This is the first year that the U. S. Polo Association has owned a decent stable. In past years some of the ponies were lent...
...finally that the wedding dress of Mary Queen of Scots was "white as the lily with which it was embroidered, but so prodigally rich and gorgeous, glittering with diamonds and silver as to be TOO DAZZLING for words to describe," and of such weight that "two demoiselles bore the train with difficulty...
Goat's Milk. In a special first-class railway car, St. Gandhi was rushed unresisting through the night to Borivli. Outside this town the train halted and the prisoner was ushered into a handsome limousine with rich, closely drawn curtains, the type of car in which the wife of an Indian Maharajah is taken for a ride. With an Englishman disguised as an Indian chauffeur at the wheel, the car sped to Yeroda jail in Poona. There officials did all in their power to make St. Gandhi comfortable, showed reporters a dozen woolly animals of purest strain, purchased...
...England lacks such a centre. This one, to be built in Boston, will combine Boston Dispensary & Hospital for Children (oldest medical institution in Boston; established 1796*), Boston Floating Hospital (floats no more since the boat was burned in 1927) and Tufts College Medical School. Its prime purpose: to train family doctors for practice in rural New England. As recently as 1921, 78 Massachusetts towns had no physicians. At present 226 Maine towns have none. Many offer $1,000 to $3,500 bonus to settlers, get no response...
However, the U. S. needs approximately 5,000 such classes. To train teachers in the special pedagogic technique special courses will be given this summer at Columbia University, the University of Chicago, the University of Cincinnati State Teachers' College at Buffalo...