Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Union 84 years ago, Congress authorized it to form "new States of convenient size, not exceeding four in number and in addition to the said State of Texas." So immense is Texas (265,896 sq. mi.) that few persons can conceive of its size. It takes as long by train to travel from the Panhandle on the north to Brownsville on the south as it does to go from New York to Key West. Leader Garner gave his own figures: "Texas would make 220 States the size of Rhode Island, 54 the size of Connecticut, six the size...
...Journeying to Newport News, Va., by a special overnight train, President Hoover boarded the cruiser Salt Lake City to review the U. S. fleet, for the first time in his Administration...
After today's game the University team will board the train for Syracuse where it will play tomorrow...
...screwthread, discovered by Archimedes, elaborated by Hero of Alexandria. But bolting is far from perfect. Vibration shakes loose the tightest of nuts, and just as for want of a nail the battle was lost, many a time for want of a bolt the airplane has crashed, the train has been wrecked, the powerplant shut down...
During the War, Commandant Huges Louis Dardelet, of the French Artillery, gravely contemplated the problem of things becoming unscrewed. Neither train nor airplane wrecks motivated him, but the fact that many shells became loose in their whirling trip through the air, became duds instead of explosive missiles. No mechanic, never having touched a monkey-wrench, he set about the problem in a purely theoretical way, writing upon a piece of paper "bolt, nut, parts joined...