Word: station
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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City Solicitor Nelligan next called some more witnesses for the prosecution: Sergeant J.E. Winslow of Station 1 stated that he had reproved Ferguson for drinking out of a bottle at the Smoker. There was no doubt, he said, of Ferguson's identity and declared that he was sitting in the orchestra half the way down the left center on the aisle...
...time sheets had arrived by this time and upon examination showed that one wagon had arrived in the Square at 1.15 o'clock and had left for Station 1 at 1.30 o'clock, having taken 15 prisoners in 15 minutes...
...pose you remember me, Mr. Stevens, but I'm. . . ." One of the oldtimers went to the telephone and rang up Balboa. When his train reached Balboa, John F. Stevens, onetime chief engineer of the Panama Canal, was welcomed at the station by Colonel Meriweather Walker, Governor of the Canal Zone...
Besides having the largest telescope in the southern hemisphere, the new Harvard Station will probably be the most completely equipped southern observatory. However the same plans will be followed that have proved successful in the operation of the Peruvian station: the programs of research will be made in Cambridge, and the photographic plates taken will be shipped to Cambridge for study by the observatory staff, and for filing in the observatory's large collection...
...events in the history of the stars, then astronomy finds the headlines of every newspaper in the country, then Dr. Shapley is besieged by reporters, and his work and that of his associates is the subject of columns of space. Likewise, the announcement that Harvard will establish a new station in South Africa finds its way into a prominent place in the evening newspapers under the heading. "Harvard Will Have Largest Telescope in Southern Hemisphere." That is news. But what great things that telescope discovers about the heavens will continue to find their way to the wastebasket. Are they...