Word: trains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...latter is represented by the only book of his in the Library. Its title is "Little Orphan Annie and the Big Train Wreck," which, according to a reliable prophet, will sooner or later be considered among the most representative of current literature...
...round trip which costs but $11.00 in an upper berth or $11.75 in a lower. The SPECIAL will pull out of Boston at 8 o'clock Friday night and make a special stop in Cambridge at 8:38 o'clock. Immediately following the game Monday night a train will leave Montreal and pull into the North Station in Boston Tuesday morning around 8 o'clock, which will give everyone a chance to get back for a 9 o'clock class...
...week, first member of the British Royal Family to visit Edward VIII since his abdication. The Baldwin Cabinet, as London newspapers printed last week, intervened recently to prevent the Dukes of Gloucester and Kent from going to Vienna. On the platform was Edward, as the Princess Royal's train rolled in. Her favorite brother ever since they both had to pose in bothersome robes and coronets as budding regalites (see cut), she greeted him as the English do when they are too overwhelmed with emotion to manage more than a shy triviality. Said Mary to Edward: "Well...
...Italian, Luigi Beccali, Olympic 1,500-metre champion in 1932, chose not to run, wanting more time to train. The Hungarian, Miklos Szabo, who recently broke the world record for 2,000 metres, canceled his entry after he caught cold walking in Central Park. The identical twins, Blaine & Wayne Rideout, students from North Texas State Teachers College, did run, but fared badly...
When Tsar Alexander I founded his Lyceum at Tsarskoe Selo to train gentlemen's sons for the government service, 12-year-old Pushkin was sent there because it was free, spent six precocious years annoying his masters, writing light and scurrilous verse, getting into scrapes. He paid little attention to study. Once, when called on to solve an algebra equation, Pushkin guessed the answer was zero. Bellowed the master: "Fine! In my class, Pushkin, everything ends in zero with you. Take your seat and write verses." He graduated from the Lyceum without honors but with a rising reputation...