Word: station
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the rumor of the outbreak of the World War reached him, he was in the Canadian Rockies, so far removed from civilization that he was forced to walk two hundred miles to the nearest enlisting station in order to sign up. He was immediately sent to Flanders, where he served with great distinction, and received his commission as colonel. As soon as peace was declared he returned to his life in the west, which he has now abandoned for a time in order to take up the lecture platform. His services have proved invaluable to the Bureau of Commercial...
...Wireless Club also announces that messages for Great Britain and Europe will now be received and dispatched free of charge to any member of the University. Three continents have been communicated with by the Harvard Radio station, the last one to be reached being Africa, where a station in Morocco was "worked". In addition to the three continents of Africa, South America and Europe, the club has been in communication with New Zealand, thereby nearly encircling the globe...
...unknown man in an intexicated condition was caught late last night in an attempt to rob a third floor room at Dana Chambers. He was detected on the fire-escape by the Proctor, and lost consciousness immediately. When last heard from he was being carried to the police Station on a stretcher...
...making his jail appearance. Next day, coming into Manhattan on a train, he was arrested, although he protested volubly that he wras coming to surrender himself. A day or two later, he set out for the Federal prison at Atlanta in the company of two deputy marshals. At the station, he bade farewell to friends who had gone to see him off. His wife boarded the same train and went to Atlanta in his company-or in as much of it as the marshals would permit. Thus, for the time being, ends the career of a man unique...
...Yale team practiced at the Baker Rink in Princeton Thursday and yesterday because of the poor condition of the ice in New Haven. It was upon arriving in Princeton that Jenkins was injured. In alighting from the train he stumbled and fell off the station platform...