Word: trains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Excuse for the state visit of Vittorio Emanuele to Regent Nicholas Horthy of Hungary was to return a similar visit paid by the Regent to Rome six months ago, but Kings seldom make state visits out of pure politeness. What caused this visit with its special train was the knowledge spreading through all the chancelleries of the Balkans that French and British rearmament was reaching a point where minor Balkan nations might soon turn to them against the encroachments of Fascism. In Venice five weeks ago Benito...
...over their early years. If the administration continues to thus sacrifice its undergraduates by neglecting to improve the instruction given in its elementary courses, it is playing a dangerous game of drakes and ducks with its own future, and the future of the men that it is supposed to train...
With all the facilities in the palm of its hand, the university has no excuse for not offering them to the aspiring biochemists it allegedly desires to train...
...royal stables late in the evening, an old cream mare whinnied feebly, gasped for breath and died. She was Amazon Leader, last of the train of eight which had drawn George V to his Coronation 26 years before...
...about anatomizing the U. S. is to examine the private histories of the people who are not news. "What I wanted to see was what was so typical that to the natives it was almost banal." He took a bus because it was cheapest, because train travel is stilted and because in an automobile "the only ones you get to talk to are filling station men and traffic cops." In a bus the atmosphere is unaffected, intimate. "Under the murderous vibration . . . you've got to relax . . . everybody sings and everybody visits and a couple of romances are started...