Word: station
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...largest telescope in the Southern Hemisphere, an instrument exceeded in size by only two others in the world, will be in operation at the new South African station of the College Observatory within the next two years, it was announced today by Dr. Harlow Shapley, director of the observatory. The contract for this giant research instrument has just been awarded to a firm in Pittsburgh, Pa., that has made many large telescopes, including the 72-inch reflector at the Dominion Observatory, Victoria, B. C., the world's second largest...
...exact site of the new station has not been decided, but it will be somewhere in the Union of South Africa, and the capital of Orange Free State, Bloemfontein, is being given serious consideration. Since 1890 the Harvard Observatory has operated a branch station at Arequipa, Peru, for the purpose of studying stars and other celestial objects that never rise above the horizons of Northern countries. However, as cloudy weather handicapped the observation from Peru for a large part of each year, the high plateaus of South Africa were found to be better for continued work the year round...
...kind of music we usually get from that class of instrument." And don't you think if they were in harmony with those things they would be glad to have them ? . . . I would like to have more of things of the Kingdom and Jesus from your, and, my station, good old WGY. B. M. STEEL...
...Heard that Senator Norbeck of South Dakota had fractured two ribs, wrenched his shoulder, in an automobile accident on the Union Station plaza...
...President can, by a stroke of the pen, capture every broadcasting station in the land. His signature must be appended to a proclamation that "there exists a war or a threat of a war or a state of public peril or other national emergency." (A Fundamentalist President could conceivably consider a decline in church-membership public peril...