Word: station
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Otto Peltzer, German sprinter, en route to Tokyo with 14 fellow athletes, went for a walk in Warsaw during the train's stopover. Seeing a train start chuffing from the station, he sprinted, caught the last car. swung aboard. It was the wrong train. He missed...
...Bellmore, L. I., potent station WEAF of the National Broadcasting Co. was silent for eight hours. Reason: a bat flew between some condenser plates, died there...
...focus of motor car manufacture, and $20,000,000 of the contract will be spent on car and tractor plants built for the latest type of straight line mass production. Three hundred motor vehicles per day will represent not peak but conservative average production. From Austingrad skilled Communist service station men will go out to spread through pastoral Russia the gospel of mechanics and motive power. In the U. S. the Austin Co. has laid out the famed proving grounds of General Motors, built a foundry for Cadillac, put up in record time the Oakland-Pontiac plant. Similarly in Austingrad...
...pomps and vanities, from wasp-waist corsets to collapsible lipsticks, which he had made his disciples discard. Theatre and cinema houses are banned in Zion. So is tobacco in all its forms. Opposed to all scientific attainment, Overseer Voliva nonetheless operates one of the most powerful broadcasting stations in the U. S. He explains: ''Our radio station is a matter between God and the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church. It was conceived and born in prayer." Despite its solvency, Zion City remains unattractive. The houses, except for Overseer Voliva's rococo mansion, are low and cheap. The streets...
...solar variations recorded at Mr. Hoover's station have been most valuable in aiding Dr. Abbot to recognize a remarkable periodicity of 25.66 months in the heat given off by the sun. If further observations show this periodicity to be real, meteorologists may be able "to fore- cast at least two years in advance the principal solar changes, and whatever of importance may prove to hang thereon," (Dr. Abbot), viz. crops, icebergs, baseball games...