Word: trains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...duty was to establish a spy system which would report accurately all troop movements behind the German lines, plans for an offensive, the formation of new divisions, new types of guns and equipment, new methods of attack. Sensational means had been tried but it was the organization of routine train-watching posts which counted most...
When the tale opens, the whole family is on a train, bound for "The Grove," their summer home in Rhode Island. Mark Waring is an Episcopal minister, tolerant but troubled. Luly, his wife, is "a saint, but without the unpleasant qualities that so often go with saintliness." Their children are Brad, 15, serious, dependable; Linda, volatile and imaginative; Dicky. funny-faced child who asks, "Papa, is a snapping turtle a mammal or an insect?" and "What State...
...Tibetan coup (TIME, Jan. 22). Of late Nanking has buzzed with rumors that Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek might lend His Holiness a few fast bombing planes for an air raid on Tibet's forbidden capital of Lhasa. Last week in Peiping the Panchen Lama chartered a special train, loaded it with food, cash, military supplies arid his elaborate religious gear and chuffed off toward Inner Mongolia, whence he would have to proceed some 2,000 miles by caravan to Lhasa...
...Last summer Elizabeth J. West, 18-year-old daughter of Mrs. James Madison Austin, who owns the Catawba Farm, got one of Wise Counsellor's colts as a present from her mother. She named him Supreme Court, helped to break and train him. Last week, Daughter Elizabeth's stable won its first race when Supreme Court nosed out Polly Hundred in the Saratoga Sales Stakes...
...Dartmouth freshman who steps off the train at Hanover, N. H. next September with resources of less than $1,050 for the nine months following will soon find himself a victim of acute financial anxiety. He will need that sum to pay his tuition, his room & board and incidentals and there will not be a cent left for clothing, travel or amusement. If he plans to join a fraternity he will have to scrape up an additional $100 or $150. And if he is going to live like his other classmates at Dartmouth, he will find by next June that...