Word: station
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Senator-suspect Vare, on the other hand, strutted down the station platform with his nose turned up even higher than usual, ready for business. A newsman asked him where Mr. Vare...
George Wigglesworth: Sixth in an unbroken line of Harvard men, who in college were high scholars and in private station have devoted their lives to the public good. A rare spirit and a great gentleman...
...trust of all the other kinds of men whose influence counted. Men had called him another Cincinnatus. He let his friends play up the farm idea and prepared to be called from the plow. . . . But he answered curtly the reporters who questioned him. Once, at the Kansas City railroad station, he gave a Hearst newshawk an ungentle shove and said: "You newspaper men will get along better with me if you wait until I have something...
Prudent, the fellow drove to a police station, where he called cheerily, "Ullo! This bloke inside me cab wants to go to Bucking'am Palace. What...
...dynamo could make another rotate. The second became a motor, and the electric transmission of power came within the possibilities of engineering. A Russian, Paul Jablochkov, invented the arc light in 1876; Thomas Edison the incandescent light in 1879. In 1881 Thomas Edison opened the first public electric supply station. And only five years later Tokyo, for more than two centuries secluded from European and U. S. science, also had its electric light system. The Tokyo Electric Light Co. was the innovation. It first served current for 75 lamps...