Word: station
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That it is disadvantageous to immigrants to allow them to land directly on the piers without going through Ellis Island, since in New York they may be "fleeced, swindled and worse," whereas at the immigration station arrangements are made for their going on to their destinations, relatives are notified...
Upon the boat train which slowly glided into Victoria Station, London, from Folkestone was Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, seven times Premier of France. Upon the station platform, ready to greet his French colleague, was monocled, natty British Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain, gifted son of "Brummagen Joe," surrounded by a crowd of officials, French and British...
...Peking the Chinese staff of the British Legation remained on strike, despite representations made to the Government. At the suburban railway station of Paomachang, which is much used by foreigners, two large signs, warning Britishers to leave the country or risk being killed, were nailed...
Recently, however, Manhattan has re-entered the competition. A building syndicate has acquired the block hounded by Lexington Ave., Depew Place, 43rd and 44th Sts., adjacent to the Grand Central Station. On this site will be erected a building rising 30 stories above the street level, and extending seven stories beneath it; it will he completed Mar. 1,1927. The new structure will be the largest office building in the world, since it will contain 21,000,000 cubic feet and have 1,350,000 square feet of office space?30,000 more than the General Motors Building...
...dead," cried them from defilement, cried their thumbs to their ears to defeat his sacrilege. After the fast she saw the face of her guilt a last time, calling her Yahweh's Avenger, by night to go to Eli with a knife and at dawn to the police station. Little Reuben was left to cry in the wilderness, to hate Christ and Yahweh alike, to cleave to a bust of the beautiful Apollo...