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Word: station (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bruce: "Outraged nature claims its rights, and there is nothing which I regard with more satisfaction than the fact that when I was a boy, living in a remote countryside, all the white citizens of that community, without reference to station in life, were banded together like brothers for the purpose of nullifying those atrocious amendments to the Federal Constitution and defeating the will of Congress, and, thank God, they defeated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Bruce & Borah | 4/26/1926 | See Source »

...fogs cleared, but radio communication with earth was lost. Dipping, the pilot dropped a note to gaping peasants: "Where are we? North or south of the Gulf of Finland? If south, please hold arms aloft; if north, cross arms." The gapers lifted their arms uncrossed. The nearest railway station was that of a village near Riga, in Latvia. That evening, 12 hours behind schedule, the Norge loomed through the dusk and was hauled into a hangar near the Gatchina Palace, outside of Leningrad. Hundreds of Soviet soldiers had to struggle in three feet of snow to get her berthed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Polar Pilgrims: Apr. 26, 1926 | 4/26/1926 | See Source »

...down in cages and lions whose pale eyes blaze till death with longing for the forests they have left behind forever-many persons feel pity, but few utter their pity. John Galsworthy, now visiting the U.S., has pitied many social animals. Last week he enunciated (from a Manhattan radio station) his views on the caging of wild ones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Caged | 4/26/1926 | See Source »

...doubtful freshness of Central Park. Those on the Dean's List have long since fitted; perjury and persuasion are the order of the day; still the undergraduate must wrap his legs around his chair until this morning before picking up his suit-cases and heading for the South Station...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE INEVITABLE ARRIVES | 4/17/1926 | See Source »

...Freshman Glee Club will broadcast tonight at 8.45 o'clock through Station WBZ at the Brunswick Hotel. The program which the Club, under the direction of Captain E. G. Smith, will give over the air this evening, will include the songs which it has been practicing during this season. The performance will start with Fair Harvard and consist of about eleven songs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN GLEE CLUB IS TO BROADCAST FROM WBZ | 4/13/1926 | See Source »

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