Word: trained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...practical exclusion of all else. Multiplying with rabbit like precision, their books are the foundation of a narrow and inaccurate impression of western expansion. The title "pioneer" becomes exclusive property of the settler and the drive for a continent rests on the time-table of a wagon train snaking its way westward. "Across the Wide Missouri" deals in more basic factors; it points out a Rocky Mountain for empire that looted the west long before the first covered wagon became even a dream. Mr. Devote credits an army of trappers as the real trailblazers and in doing so plugs...
...least for most people, to hear the tiny muscles of the ear cavity when they contract. All that you have to do is to squeeze the eyes shut or clench your jaws,* covering the ears if outside noises interfere. The faint rumble sounds something like a distant subway train...
...fierce young captain stopped off in Manhattan and met José Clemente Orozco, who was painting toys in a factory. Siqueiros told Orozco he thought the subway was one of the loveliest things he had ever seen. Riding a hurtling Bronx express, they quarreled violently about it. When the train stopped, Orozco dashed out and disappeared into a blinding snowstorm. Siqueiros waited all night in the subway entrance, making occasional forays into the night, fearful that a great Mexican talent was freezing to death somewhere under the alien snow. Two days later Siqueiros learned that his angry friend had simply...
...trick worth two of that. Last week Westinghouse proudly announced an invention which it called the most important since the development of the spring: a super shock-absorber system that promises to smooth out the roughest roadbed. Now a passenger will be able to stroll the length of the train without sitting on a stranger...
That Hagen Girl (Warner) begins as a sociological case history and ends as a soap opera. The case: a wealthy smalltown family smuggles daughter home from somewhere on a night train. The doctor comes and the windows to daughter's room are barred. The town correctly guesses that she is insane. The same train has also brought a middle-aged townswoman and a baby...