Word: trains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...style method of testing animals' eyesight is to train them to respond to certain visual stimuli. This is laborious, and in the case of some refractory creatures, such as snakes, frogs and Gila monsters, virtually impossible. At the University of Rochester a promising, extravagantly polite young scientist named John Warkentin is investigating animal eyesight with a more efficient technique which requires no training, last week made public some of his findings...
...Pacific, the Northern Pacific, the Tacoma Eastern, the Oregon Railroad & Navigation, missed wrecks by a hair on half-a-dozen other lines. In those days grades were so steep over the Cascade Mountains that when a dispatcher wired a telegraph operator in the mountains, asked if a runaway stock train had passed through, the reply became a classic: "Roar of wheels. Smell of manure. Yes." Harry French's biggest railroad wreck came when a bridge gave way as the locomotive passed over it, dropped the caboose in which he was riding 40 feet into a flooded river, killing nine...
...like Harvard very much," the "Digger" declared last night, "but with the prospect of the job I think I should be wasting my time here if I were to stay." He said that he will plan to train some while working, and will probably swim in the National A.A.U. meet, unattached. He also expects to compete in the next Olympics--for Australia, because he is still an Australian citizen despite his residence in this country...
Pulling up its stake at Harvard, the Bureau for Street Traffic Research will move to New Haven this summer to train Yale graduates for professional work as traffic engineers...
This week avocado growers had nothing much to do. Combining sentiment with institutional advertising in good California fashion, 50 of them will start off on a 16-day pilgrimage promoted by the California Avocado Association, which carefully labels itself "a Cultural (non-marketing) Society." The pilgrims will go by train (price of upper berth: $205) to see Señor LeBlanc's parent avocado tree in Atlixco. There, on Easter, they will gather round the tree and listen to numerous complimentary speeches from U. S. Ambassador Josephus Daniels and Mexican dignitaries. They will present a gold medal...