Word: station
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Elcano is an old Spanish gunboat captured by Admiral Dewey in the Battle of Manila Bay. Some years ago she was refitted and sent to occupy a station of the Yangtze Patrol Gorges at Ichang, just below the Yangtze Gorges. The trials and tribulations the Elcano met with in navigating the comparatively quiet stretch ot river between Hankow and Ichang make a legend dear to the hearts of the merchant skippers at Ichang. Some say she was towed up by hundreds of Chinese trackers, and others that she came up under her own power, making sometimes as much...
...himself was well treated because he placed his electrical knowledge at the disposal of the local Soviet which was with difficulty installing a power station...
...ride all night in a day coach for lack of other accommodations, to watch the gradual gray of dawn creep on while miserable coat-wraped figures stir uneasily in their seats or mumble drousily, and finally to be set out into the smoky chillness of South Station, is almost enough to banish all thoughts of further vagabonding for as much as a week at least. And, if the truth must out, little would have been seen of the Student Vagabond--who feels at the moment like the proverbial hedgehog when he sees his shadow on February 22--if it were...
This sideshow life impressed him finally as no commerce for a man approaching middle age. So he journeyed to St. Louis, opened a gasoline station for himself. This was a real business; a man was more like his fellows . . . turning the pump crank, making change. But when he would stoop to open an oil cock, his hanging plait of fat interfered. He decided to rid himself...
...weighed (with other scoopings of fat) 31 pounds, and left a yellow gap across Mr. Phillips's belly, which the surgeons promptly closed by lifting flesh up off the thighs and nether parts to the steadier waist line. In three weeks he can be back at his gas station, can function with less discomfort...