Word: station
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...death of his father, King George. He is possessed of an anemic personality and a presence far from inspiring, which accounts in no small degree for the alleged lack of Monarchist sentiment in Saxony. It is said that on one occasion, when he was standing in uniform upon a station platform, a lady asked him to move her trunk. He replied suavely: "Madam, I am not a porter; I only look like...
...steps of his headquarters. After reviewing the assembled troops, the General turned toward the building out of which he had come, stood at attention with the troops as honors were paid to the Tricolor which was slowly hauled down. More commands, and off to a local railway station moved the troops. The Ruhr occupation,* begun on the orders of Premier Poincaré on Jan. 11, 1923, came to an end after 2 years, 6 months and 20 days. Germans were unimpressed. There were no tears, no jubilations-not until the last French poilu had gone, when...
...Mayor, Dever, one of the Illinois Senators, Deneen, and three railway Presidents, Rea of the Pennsylvania; Holden, of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy; Markham of the Illinois Central, celebrated the opening of its new $60,000,000, 1,200,000 square feet, eight-story (potentially 21 story) Union Station-"one of the very largest in the world and certainly the world's most modern and most complete large station in all respects...
...Station Agent. Some score of years ago there was a young railroad ticket agent in Derbyshire. He had a great ambition to be a scientist, but he had no money for an education. So he sat and ate out his heart behind a ticket window. His name was Bullock...
...precedent and seeming proof, Manufacturer Dubilier had the reported performance of short-wave sets taken into the Far North by Explorer Donald B. MacMillan (TIME, July 6 et seq.), which their operators last week declared would (perhaps) reach every properly equipped station in the entire world...