Word: station
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world's most newsworthy personage and since the questioners are presumably the world's ablest newsgatherers, it is obviously impossible to believe that such a meeting could actually occur without producing anything more printable than a conference of kerosene tank politicians in a mud-flat filling station. Nine times out of ten, however, that is what happens. The correspondents can rarely think of anything worthwhile to ask the President; if they do the convention of mystery that surrounds all sorts of government impels the President to demonstrate his unique ability to say nothing with so much good humor...
...quite a different mood was the Harvard hockey contingent which rolled out of the North Station at 8.30 o'clock yesterday evening on its annual Canadian invasion than the one of last year...
...Philadelphia, the Right Honorable Viscount Leverhulme, head of Lever Bros. Ltd. (Soap) arrived at the 30th Street Railroad Station. President of the International Committee of Scientific Management, he was vexed to discover that he had brought his wife and baggage, had forgotten his railroad tickets. Efficiently he boarded his train, bought two more tickets...
...perpetually astounded Correspondent Walter Duranty experienced spasms of amazement at the diffident manner in which the drama was handled in the Soviet press. Cabled he: "Today each Moscow newspaper gives their plight 66 lines of print in a brief double column with a bald single headline. 'On Drifting Station of Comrade Ivan Papanin.' Can you beat...
Three o'clock the next morning his overcoat and hat were turned in at the Charles River Basin police station, reputedly found on the subway bridge. Monday, February 7, the body was found floating in the ice chop a half mile below the bridge...