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Packing a small suitcase, informing her husband whom she found in Harry's Bar that she was taking a train to Germany to get away for a while, patting his arm, refusing a drink, getting on the train -- all this had only taken her two hours.
From the man who had leaped in from the high bank outside, as the train had slowed on the grade.
He was a captain, he said, in the army, and on the train to New York his purse and all his money had been stolen, and would I lend him twenty-five dollars to be given him at the General Delivery window??
Therefore it's a genuine pleasure to tell you about an entirely happy bodybuilder who has never had to train in secret has never heard one unkind word from his parents and never has been taunted by his schoolmates!!
Louis Sherry once stayed a fortnight at the Palace, and he was so pleased with omelet Arbogast that he introduced it at his restaurant in New York J. Pierpont Morgan had come in his private train to San Francisco, to attend an Episcopal convention, and brought the restaurateur with him.
In Alabama Public Service Commission v. Southern Ry. Co., the commission had refused to permit abandonment of certain `` uneconomic '' train facilities.
Because of his brain injury and the extreme damage suffered to his sight, the patient had to train himself for a new line of work, that of a portfolio-maker, an occupation requiring a great deal of precision in the making of measurements and a fairly well-developed sense of form and contour.
At Osaka, Mr. Yoneda had to leave us to get the train to his home, but Mr. Nishima and I had an hour and a half before train time to see Osaka at night.
yet if he said: Make an excuse yourself, come out here today, she would have been on the next train -- and, similarly, if she had been in need, he would have gone to her.
In 1851, he represented Alton & Sangamon Railroad in a dispute with one of its shareholders, James A. Barret, who had refused to pay the balance on his pledge to buy shares in the railroad on the grounds that the company had changed its original train route.
In 1893, at the age of thirty-three, Bates, an English professor at Wellesley College, had taken a train trip to Colorado Springs, Colorado, to teach a short summer school session at Colorado College.
* 2008 – A EuroCity express train en-route from Kraków, Poland to Prague, Czech Republic strikes a part of a motorway bridge that had fallen onto the railroad track near Studénka railway station in the Czech Republic and derails, killing 8 people and injuring 64 others.
In mid-December 1915, Dr. Alzheimer fell ill on the train on his way to the University of Breslau, where he had been appointed professor of psychiatry in 1912.
When a hypothetical dilemma was given to 24 people and according to the dilemma they had the capability of pushing a stranger in front of a train so they could rescue five people, individuals who had taken selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors were not as likely to support the idea of pushing the person.
On 2 September, Skippon, having been told that his infantry were unable to break out as the cavalry had done, and having been offered generous terms by the King, surrendered 6, 000 infantry and all his army's guns and train.
It had become too expensive to train new staff members to use BC, and too expensive to maintain in general.
Motor-driven mechanical calculators had these between the drive motor and gear train, to limit damage when the mechanism jammed, as motors used in such calculators had high stall torque and were capable of causing damage to the mechanism if torque wasn't limited.
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The train slowed at a road crossing, and the big door slid open ; ;
The roads were also wet due to a recent rain storm, that slowed the advance of the supply wagons and ammunition train, and several men were employed to try to make the roads passable.
Whenever the train slowed it was pelted with rocks.
On April 25, 1865, Abraham Lincoln's black-draped funeral train slowed for the crowd lining the New York Central Railroad tracks at the Erie Canal on the way west to Springfield, Illinois.
Once # 8888 was slowed to a speed of 11 miles an hour, a CSX employee, trainmaster Jon Hosfeld, ran alongside the train and climbed aboard, shutting down the locomotive.
After the train service discontinued, the growth in the town slowed down.
In the earliest days of railways, trains were slowed or stopped by the application of manually applied brakes on the locomotive and in brake vehicles through the train, and later by steam power brakes on locomotives.
The train is slowed by the climb, and then leaves down a slope, so kinetic energy is converted to gravitational potential energy in the station.
Hauling a 3, 600-short ton ( 3, 300 t ) freight train demanded doubleheading and helper operations, and adding and removing the helper engines from a train slowed operations.
Witnesses interviewed by the New York Times also stated that the train had not slowed approaching or in the S curve until the cars left the tracks.
A self-imposed speed limit was routinely exceeded by locomotive engineers, until the Interstate Commerce Commission rules imposed a stricter limit of in the early 1950s, and the train slowed to a schedule of 80 minutes, though with the addition of the Glenview stop.
As they passed the area, the Bryces slowed their train and blew the horn, picking up women and children.
A police officer at the site tried to flag the train down before it reached the car but, although the train had slowed before hitting the car, it pushed the car about 100 yards along the line.
The crew of the northbound train saw the oncoming passenger train and had slowed their train, flicking their headlights to warn the crew of the approaching Southern Aurora.
His progress was slowed considerably by a cumbersome train of over 125 heavily laden supply wagons that he had captured near Rockville, Maryland.
The sand drag slowed the train but it smashed into the buffer at about and then into the wall.
The sharp curvature slowed train operation and generated a loud metallic scraping noise.
Thankfully, the man was not badly hurt because the plastic cover disconnected near the end of the ride when the train had slowed down, significantly.
65-year-old farmer S. O. Butler claimed that he was injured on June 10, 1939, while disembarking from a moving train which had slowed down at Palmyra, rather than coming to a complete stop, because of its heavy load.
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By now Harmony could see that most of the adults in the train were winded and resting, or else siphoned off from the games by the challenging lure of the great cliff towering above them.
Already a few hardy folk from their own train were zealously chipping away at the register rocks, leaving their own records along with those made by the earlier trains.
He's got the tightest running gear in the train now.
Led by Bill Doolin, these mobsters specialized in train robberies but as a sideline they looted stores and robbed banks, making liberal use of their guns.
He was -- as he told himself in the vernacular of a trade no longer his own -- riding the dark train out.
I been riding train for a ways now ''.
There is a long train flowing from the shoulders.
It was her job to stand at the foot of the stairs, and, just as the First Lady stepped off the last tread, Mama would straighten out her long train before she marched to the Blue Room to greet her guests with the President.
Mama swirled the train in place, and not a step was lost.
`` I must hurry to catch my train ''.
it was another to house, feed, and train them.
Lewis gave him a guidebook tour of London and, motoring and walking, took him to Stratford, but the London stay was for only ten days, and on the twentieth they took the train for Southampton, where they spent the night for an early morning Channel crossing.
In many of his poems, death comes by train: a strongly evocative visual image.
Anybody who is expecting a joyride should, according to Mr. Shriver, get off the train right now.
Now he knew that the moment illuminated by the vision on the train would have to be approached.
A train hooted.
Nothing was said about hotels or train journeys.
And now Andrei sat on a train on the way to Lublin and wondered if he was not being punished for his lack of belief.
By late afternoon the train inched into the marshaling yards in the railhead at Lublin, which was filled with lines of cars poised to pour the tools of war to the Russian front.
At a siding, another train which was a familiar sight these days.
I thought you might get in on a morning train ''.
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