Word: trains
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Fearing air raids on the exposed royal palace, plump Empress Menen, her 14-year-old daughter Princess Tsahai and Prince Makonnen, 11, climbed into a special train and disappeared in the direction of French Somaliland. All that could be learned in Addis Ababa was that they were bound for a secret hideaway near the Danakil Desert...
Farmers?children, farmers?children. And then I saw it clearly: Train the children to be farmers! Not in England. Teach them farming in the land where they will farm...
...train with Father Coughlin as it sped East was Mrs. Roosevelt bound out of Detroit. There she had dedicated a slum clearance project, spent a morning at her brother Gracie Hall Roosevelt's cottage on Brown's Lake near Jackson, Mich., while neighbors with field glasses ogled the First Lady disporting herself on the beach in shorts...
...special train bearing Edward of Wales from the French Riviera drew into Geneva shortly before the Foreign Secretary was to address the League Assembly. Swiss burghers, startled out of their stolidity, spread exciting rumors that on this supreme occasion the British heir apparent, though precluded from taking an active part, would lend the weight of his presence to the Struggle for Peace. From the railway station H. R. H. was driven to one of the big hotels bordering the Lake of Geneva where he took a bath, ate a hearty breakfast, sallied forth with a group of swank friends...
...competitions train candidates to be executives. Managers must be able to handle large sums of money, direct all the activities of their teams, and to guide their subordinates. Those who succeed find upon graduation that employers give them the respect that they have not had in College. Thus the Freshman football managerial competition which opens this afternoon should not be slighted on the grounds that it may not be worthwhile...