Word: station
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Electricians swarmed through the cedar groves stringing telegraph wires and radio aerials. The U. S. Radio Commission notified Station WEBC at Superior that it might quadruple its wattage to assure good reception at the Summer White House...
From Pittsburgh there was shipped recently to Bloemfontein, South Africa, the second of the three new mountings for telescopes at Harvard's new southern-hemisphere station on the Modder River in the Orange Free State. The mounting just completed is a fine specimen of the telescope maker's art. It is provided for the 24-inch Bruce photographic doublet which for thirty years has been in operation, with a rather inferior mounting, at the former Harvard station in Arequipa, Peru. The 24-inch Bruce has long been the Observatory's most powerful tool for studying southern stars and nebulae...
...When the station is in full operation, at least six telescopes will be used in South Africa. In addition to those for which new mountings are being supplied, there will be the 13-inch Boyden telescope, especially suited for planetary studies and for the newer types of spectrophotometry, inaugurated in recent years at the Harvard Observatory; an eight-inch photographic lens for work on standard magnitudes and variable stars; and a three-inch "policeman" which will steadily maintain the Harvard patrol on all of the southern sky. In addition there are two or three lenses that will be in occasional...
Tomorrow at 1.05 o'clock the Freshman and Combination crews will disembark from the South Station to take up training at Red Top. The entire squad will be made up of 15 oarsmen two coxswains, Coach H. H. Hames the Freshman manager and three waiters...
...frail, and, when working hard, fidgety. The condition is largely the result of an accident a score of years ago. He was on a week-end visit at the country home near Milwaukee of Ann McEldin Douglass, his fiancee.* Mrs. Douglass with the young people was at the railroad station. Along the tracks went an express train, and across the tracks a huge St. Bernard dog. The train batted the huge dog through the air. The dog struck Mr. Dillon in the stomach and knocked him toward a lamp post. On the way he struck Mrs. Douglass and broke...