Word: trains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...declared purpose of promoting the 'science and art of government administration' and to improve our 'public administration -- national, state, and local -- for the welfare of our people.' The terms of the gift also include the provision that the 'new school shall be organized and conducted not merely to train technical specialists, but to educate men in a broad way for public service...
...Lake Rudolf on the British Kenya border. This proved not true. Last week in his original fortress-prison, Gara Mulata, Lij Yasu died, "of paralysis," read the announcement, "brought on by his vices.'' His body was piled on a motor truck, jolted to Dire Dawa, chuffed by train to Addis Ababa. In a graveyard 100 mi. to the north of the city Lij Yasu was buried beside his father. The only mourner was Amba Hanna, the aged priest who had been handcuffed to Lij Yasu for nine years. ¶ From the southern front came a succession of contradictory...
Four years ago, when Rose Freistater, 26, of The Bronx applied for a teaching job, New York City examiners put her on the scales, shook their heads when the needle clocked 182. Refusing her a permanent job, they made her a substitute biology teacher, told her to train down to 150. For six months she rode horseback, hiked ten miles a day. dieted to the limit, became so weak that she ''could hardly pick up a thread.'' Then the examiners asked for her weight, still shook their heads when she said 160. Thoroughly demoralized, she stopped...
Uhlen went on to show why the Japs have of late won all the honors from the Americans. He said that there were two main reasons for this, most important of which was their fanaticism. Nowhere else on earth can boys he made to train as faithfully as do the little Japs...
...Disused but in good repair at Vatican City is the world's most elaborate private train. An entire car is devoted to the papal chamber and throne room, with four lifesize figures of angels outside the big arched windows. By an ingenious mechanism the Throne can be caused to upend and vanish into the wall, a superb berth appearing in its place covered by a white & gold canopy. So that six Cardinals can celebrate Mass at once en route, the Papal Train has six altars sumptuously provided with cruets of water and sacrificial wine, tabernacles, lace altar cloths, candlesticks...