Word: station
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bells altoed. Morning classes were over at Harvard University. Through snow beleagured quads, Harvard students began to march or slink to their luncheons. Outside Langdell Hall, a group loitered long, seemed, in fact to have taken up a permanent station there. More and more kept coming, some with ear-tabs (for it was cold) tall young men who waddled, short young men who strode; the worried, the weasel-faced, the debonair: men distinguished by their intelligence, by their apparel; lambs, lions, scoffers, leaders, bleaters, men who, in other clothing might have been artists. Seven hundred idle, able, rowdy, snobbish...
When the President heard of these things, he rejoiced, dashed out of the Grand Hotel at Venice, jumped into a waiting gondola and was slowly "gondoled" to the railway station, where he dashed to a train which took him to Rome. At Rome, he dashed to the Vatican, paid his respects to Il Papa, saw many Italian notables, was interviewed by many journalists. Next day, he dashed from his hotel, bumped along the cobblestones of Rome in a rickety taxi. At the station, he boarded a train which rushed him to Naples. At Naples, he shot up a gangplank...
...Cambridge. Bells altoed. Morning classes were over at Harvard University. Through snow-beleagured quads, Harvard students began to march or slink to their luncheons. Outside Langdell Hall, a group loitered long, seemed, in fact, to have taken up a permanent station there. Others, curious, joined them. More and more kept coming, some with tippets, some with ear-tabs (for it was cold)?tall young men who waddled, short young men who strode; the worried, the weasel-faced, the debonair; men distinguished by their intelligence, by their apparel; lambs, lions, scoffers, leaders, bleaters, men who, in other clothing might have...
Professor Bailey's own research work has dealt largely with the meteorological problems of Peru and with the southern stars which he has photographed with several high powered telescopes at the Arequipa Station. This work has been of the greatest importance to astronomical research, partly because of the station's high altitude of 8000 feet and partly because of its southern location. A large proportion of the material that is used in the astronomical investigations at the Observatory is obtained from the Arequipa station...
...Professor Bailey visited South Africa and carried on astronomical observations on an elevated plateau in the northern and more remote section of Cape Colony, and conducted careful investigations during the next year in regard to the desirability of establishing a station in that region...