Word: station
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reason for moving to the Square was that her son is coming into $2,500,000 left to him by his grandfather and that it was necessary that he should maintain himself in a style befitting his coming station in life. . But she thought that, if Sir Thomas could afford to rent a house for another woman, he could certainly afford to support his wife in comfort...
That music-what was it? In the dank fastnesses of the jungle along the banks of the Rio Parima, towards whose source the white men were hacking their way,, stirred unearthly strains. "Debbils," groaned the natives. "Station KDKA, Pittsburgh," chortled the expedition's justly proud radio expert, John Swanson. A deep, pontifical voice broke the hot silence. "That," explained the man with the ear phones, "is Judge Elbert H. Gary, of the U. S. Steel Corporation...
...British Parliament returned to London, last week, to murmur about a serum treatment for tuberculosis which they had gone to Geneva to investigate-the invention of one Dr. Henry Spahlinger. On the streets of Geneva, they said, posters were displayed announcing the sale of Dr. Spahlinger's research station if his debts were not paid. Despite this, he has rejected an offer of ?250,000 for his serum from a pharmaceutical manufacturing firm, because he feared the serum would be exploited beyond the means of the poor. The medical M. P.'s reported that evidence had been referred...
...uneventful trip, except that in the evening, the President gave a handful of cigars to policemen guarding the station platform at Norwich, Conn. Next morning at 8:00 a. m. the little train pulled into the station at Salem, Mass. A crowd was waiting. The President and Mrs. Coolidge, "his gracious spouse," as a Washington newspaper described her, appeared on the rear platform. Several office-seekers hurried to them?Senator William M. Butler, who will have to face the Massachusetts electorate against onetime (1919-25) Senator David I. Walsh next year, and Mrs. John Jacob Rogers, widow of the late...
...GROW, Lieut. Commander, U. S. Navy, Naval Mission to Peru, Foreign Station Annex, N. Y. Post Office...