Word: trains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...autumn of 1924. As there were no doctors in attendance at the obscure Georgia resort in those days, he had to figure out his own aquatic exercises. Gradually the word began to pass around, and there was great excitement when one day two paralytics were carried off the train. Mr. Roosevelt reported that he "undertook to become doctor and physiotherapist...
Instead of covering the shortage, Barry & Baiata soon approached Van Derck with a proposition for "financing" in the same manner a "Barry Special" train to the Carnera-Baer fight in Manhattan. That, they said, would net sufficient profits to pay off the $172 shortage, leave something extra for all. The "Barry Special" was a flop, and Clerk Van Derck, now into the bank for $1,100, was asked to finance two concessions at the Chicago Fair ? a Chinese Show in The Bowery and the Hall of Champions where a stable of broken-down fisticuffers pummeled each other nightly. Both...
...marked contrast to the Oxford debaters who may journey down to London in a private train, followed by crowds of supporters, the Harvard Debating Team arrives unobtrusively in New York tonight, unescorted...
While Frederick DeW. Bolman, Jr. '35, captain of the two-man Crimson team which will broadcast its arguments against an Anglo-American alliance over a coast-to-coast and trans-Atlantic radio network, flies, Arthur G. Gilman '36, goes by train. Tomorrow morning in Gotham's Radio City, whence the American broadcast originates, they meet for a rehearsal before the debate goes on the air at 3.00 o'clock...
Completing his itinerary for the day, Ambassador Saito, who has been Mr. Forbes' guest since Wednesday, visited friends in the afternoon, attended a formal dinner for the Far Eastern Association, and took a late train back to Washington...