Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they had a boat ride on the Potomac, with famed old-time Pitcher Walter ("Big Train") Johnson autographing 300 gift baseballs for the Juniors. They had their own pretty-girl singers and band. They planted a hickory tree near the Washington Monument in soil from every State, Mrs. H. G. Courtney of Norwalk, Iowa, wielding the spade ably assisted by President Combs. They sang Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here, using "heck"' to fill out the line, "What the - do we care!" Unlike city and town carriers, they did not agitate for a 40-hr. week, because...
...anticipate that this will become a school to train leaders and, though them, the people at large how to translate democratic ideal of administration into living realities," declared Lucius N. Littauer '78 of New York City, founder at the "Silver Trowel" exercise last...
...zaro Cárdenas makes frequent journeys to observe conditions among his people. As tireless a horseman as Roosevelt I, President Cárdenas loves to beat the brush, sometimes leaves his $350,000 Olivo (olive-colored special train) at an obscure siding and gallops off to find the underprivileged. On such occasions local governors are under strict orders that the President is not to be guarded. They know he means it, and they try to keep their troops always just beyond the next hill. A tent is good enough to shelter the President at night, but if the hacienda...
...well as being one of the noisiest and most crowded in the world, the New York subway system is also the safest. Over its 230 miles of track bed, 8,755 electric trains clatter daily on split-minute headway, carrying well over 1,500,000,000 passengers every year, more than three times as many as ride each year on all the big U. S. railroads put together. Until this week no subway passenger had lost his life in a train crash in more than two years. Then one morning a closing car door caught a woman's hand...
Kentucky-born Leane Zugsmith's Summer Soldier is about Harlan County. She calls it Chew County. Seven slightly screwy liberals join a committee to investigate conditions in Chew. Five of them, riding down in a stuffy train, get a wire from their chairman, Hankemer, who> has gone ahead: Do not get off at Chew get off at Zara...