Word: station
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...give him a royal welcome, not omitting renditions of Fredericus Rev, a martial Monarchial anthem (later forbidden). Republicans boycotted the proceeding. Communists threatened to stage counterdemonstrations (later forbidden). Finally, der Tag arrived. Chancellor Hans Luther, with his 10-year-old daughter, motored from the Chancellery to the railway station. Hundreds of thousands of people, mostly Monarchists, lined the streets. All Berlin, or so it seemed, was draped in the old Imperial colors-red, white and black. . . . A train steamed into the station. President-elect Hindenburg, his son and daughter-in-law, alighted. The aged Field Marshal was welcomed to Berlin...
Directed Wireless Station...
During the war, Professor Lemaire was in charge of the French government wireless station at Bordeaux. He also conducted personally numerous researches on the application of submarine acoustics and made notable discoveries in connection with the effect of sound upon opaque materials, the shape of horns for acoustic instruments, the assembling of receptive membranes and marine microphones, as well as the first oscillographs of propellor vibrations. He is also responsible for an important study of musical acoustics, the significance of which led the French government to commend him and recommend his pursuance of the subject...
...final appointment announced last night is that of Dr. W. J. Crozler G. '14 to an associate professorship of General Physiology. Dr. Crozier was Resident Naturalist of the Bermuda Biological Station for Research from 1915 to 1919. He graduated from the College of the City of New York in 1912, receiving his A.M. and his Ph.D. from the University in 1914 and 1915 respectively. He will assume the duties of his new professorship in September when he will give graduate courses in physiology...
...shorter wave lengths will pierce the hitherto impenetrable belt of static between the latitudes of 55° and 75°. The Radio Broadcasters' League hopes to be able to transmit a running account of the expedition's adventures by stepping up its messages at a Chicago station. Eskimo folk songs are also part of the tentative program...