Word: station
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rush system" should be replaced by a "station system" which will distribute the work more evenly and will encourage individual excellence in waiting...
...donned in mourning for Queen Alexandra. Close beside the throne stood the Marquis of Salisbury, holding the great Sword of State. Since the Prince of Wales was unable to appear on account of his fractured collar bone (TIME, Feb. 8), his brother, the Duke of York, took up his station slightly to the left of the throne. The Keeper of His Majesty's Privy Purse, the Gentlemen Usher of the Black Rod, the First Lady of the Bedchamber and many another took their places. As the King summoned the members of the House of Commons to enter the House...
...Europe to toll the hour of midnight, to announce that the last Allied soldier had actually departed from the First Rhineland Occupied Zone. Slowly the great bell teetered on its pivots, causing a faint squeak to be broadcast over the radio to all Germany by the great Koenigswusterhausen Station. Then came the triumphant clang of the clapper itself, followed by the roar of the crowds. "Deutschland! Deutschland ueber Alles!" they chanted, and then joined in the old hymn "Grosser Gott, wir loben Dich." Lifting their hands they took an oath to German unity proposed by Herr Adenauer, Ober-Burgomaster...
...whose device and motto she uses (a peacock rampant, subscribed Pour y parvenir), bobbed her hair and eloped with Sir John Manners 400 years ago, making a speech to her relatives which Diana paraphrased in 1919 after finding and nursing Captain Alfred Duff-Cooper in a Red Cross station in France: "But I love the man, and I shall have none other. I'll never wear the cap of St. Catherine, because old maids are only found in museum cases." Lady Diana made her own wedding dress "But I want to make my own dresses" and wore a veil worn...
...nearby hut. His left arm and shoulder were strapped and bound to prevent straining the fracture. Solicitous hands bundled him into a heavy overcoat, buttoned it tightly across his chest, turned up the fur collar about his ears. His chauffeur drove him carefully to Market Harborough station. There he picked up the public telephone instrument with his free hand and called his secretary at York House, London: "I'll be back to dinner, and you'll see that there's very little the matter with...