Word: station
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...declares: "In the central police station at Belgrade, Jugoslavia, there is in regular use a brazier on which the bodies of prisoners from whom information is wanted are presented to the flames. . . . Needles are stuck into the tongues of suspects and red-hot pins are forced under their nails. . . . There is at hand a special machine designed to squeeze the head until the skull is fractured...
Sirs : I am employed with one of the largest concerns of news dealers in the U. S. (Fred Harvey, Union Station, Chicago), working on the second shift and attending law school in the forenoon. ... I formed the habit of studying TIME and find it the most delightful little magazine on the market. . . . . . . So far not one of our customers who has bought TIME failed to return. It is a pleasure to sell TIME, since this can be done with the full knowledge that the customer gets his money's worth and will always find it enlightening and, what...
...donation of 100,000 marks ($23,800). He traveled to Cologne and personally chipped it into a fund now being raised to restore the great Cathedral.† As he journeyed through the recently evacuated First Rhineland Zone (TIME, Feb. 15), crowds of cheering Rhinelanders met him at every station...
...Angeles, a grocer on the city's outskirts whiled away time before his supper listening to his radio, heard a voice at Station KPO (San Francisco) saying: "Allen Straight is asked to communicate immediately with his father at Loveland, Colo. Straight is thought to be en route between Del Mar and San Diego." It was part of KPO's daily call for "missing people...
...crowd about the drug store placed their watches in their pockets. They knew what would happen now. So did I. Leaving my banana soda I went to look at the performance. It was always the same. One after another of the men quit his station by the steps to follow Cartrack. So a long file of solemn marchers were soon in her wake. Main Street in Charmington became for a few minutes a primrose path to an everlasting bonfire, and the bon fire was the rage of Cartrack, damned by religion, damned...