Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Land: As darkness settled down on the little Scots hamlet of Castlecary late one afternoon last week, the local train from Dundee pulled into the London & North Eastern Railway station. Around it swirled a December blizzard that blotted out the lights of the village, stalled the train. Without a second's warning the mile-a-minute Edinburgh-Glasgow express following the local crashed into it. Rescuers, lighted by bonfires made of debris from shattered wooden coaches, took out 91 injured, 35 dead-Britain's worst rail-road disaster in two decades...
...most deported foreign correspondents are quiet and quick. Quite a different affair, however, was the expulsion from Yugoslavia's capital last week of Hubert D. Harrison, chief Balkan correspondent for Reuters, British news agency, and part-time reporter for the New York Times. As Mr. Harrison's train pulled out of Belgrade, he got a Channel-swimmer's ovation from a noisy crowd of fellow journalists, students and well-known politicians. Mr. Harrison's exile was in itself unique. It had to do with Mickey Mouse...
...fruit of older wisdom? Is there no profit of all a man's labor which he taketh under the sun? Hardly. Rather is there great profit, perhaps not to the individual who puts in the effort and makes the sacrifices. The profit accrues to those who follow in his train, who have heard his voice, shared his enthusiasm, and will come in time to pass on to other rising generations his message...
Whereas the Dalai Lama had been under British influence, the Panchen Lama cast his lot with China. He entertained and lived well, rode around in a bright yellow motorcar and bright yellow railroad train, and so great became his influence that the Nationalist Government thought it worthwhile to pay him $480,000 a year, give him the title of "Great Wise Priest Who Guards the Nation and Spreads Culture," in an attempt to save Manchuria and North China from Japanese influence...
When he heard of gold on the Pacific Coast he started for California as a matter of course, arriving with a wagon train after combating cholera, dysentery, Indians, grizzly bears, treacherous rivers, hunger, thirst. He panned a few ounces of gold but gave it up to become a sailor, trapper, steamboat ticket speculator. In San Francisco he studied law, became a prominent citizen, headed the forces opposed to the Vigilantes, met and disliked William Tecumseh ("War is Hell'') Sherman who was then simply a California banker and commander of the California militia. In the Civil War, Wistar...