Word: station
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Official notification of the launching of the S. S. Saratoga (TIME, Apr. 6) was brought to the President from the Washington Naval Air Station, which had received the message from Camden, N. J., shipways by pigeonwing...
Automatically released from their aviary, twenty pigeons homed to the Naval Air Station at Washington, announced that the world's greatest airplane-carrying vessel was on water...
JOHN L. SULLIVAN-R. F. Dibble- Little, Brown ($3.00). Lonely in their libraries, sat Whittier, Lowell, Emerson, Holmes. From a dusty railway coach in the Back Bay station, with splendor in his mien and whiskey on his breath, emerged a bull-necked Irishman. Milling crowds roared greeting. "I thank you one and all very kindly," rumbled the Irishman. "Yours truly, John L. Sullivan...
...grand stroke were particularly offended by Lampy's version of Washington crossing the Delaware as it appeared on the front cover. Yet so little did it impress them when they went about the work of confiscation that many inoffensive copies of the authentic Digest were carted to the police station. The other picture which the blue coats couldn't brook, they branded obscene. Of course it would be too much to expect honest and upright police commissioners to recognize the famous picture by Manet that has long hung in the Luxembourg. There may be some criticism of the Lampoon...
...given no idea of the problems he may expect to meet, and when he fails, as he frequently does from lack of experience or discouragement, not the slightest attempt is made to readjust him or to sustain his flagging enthusiasm. The Social Service Committee acts as a mere clearing station--not in any sense of a stimulating center of social thought. The hi-weekly reports which have been asked of settlement heads must of necessity be perfunctory, and in actual use have not served their purpose. Professional workers have time neither to train volunteers nor to account for maladjustment...