Word: station
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That evening in Plattsmouth, Neb., Sheriff Homer Sylvester received word to look out for the fugitives who might be heading toward Omaha. Sheriff Sylvester and his brother Cass grabbed their rifles and drove a few miles south of Plattsmouth to a filling station. Waiting there they soon saw a car racing along at 60 m. p. h. They let it pass and followed it. Soon the bandits slowed down, began to drive a weaving course pretending they were drunken drivers to tempt their pursuers alongside. The Sylvesters refused to be tempted, finally cornered their men at the dead...
...pages of their newspapers. The American Chemical Society was holding a convention at the University of North Carolina. The chemists detrained at Durham, where arrangements had been made to convey them by bus the twelve miles to Chapel Hill. In the line of special busses waiting at the Durham station was a regular bus whose route missed the university by half a mile. Some 25 scientists, including General Electric Co.'s Nobel Laureate Irving Langmuir, heedlessly climbed aboard this bus, were driven...
...none-too-strong Yardling nine will have a real tussle on their hands when they run into Worcester Academy on Soldiers Field at 3 o'clock. The '40 team dropped their two games played this last week, losing to the Newport Naval Station 13-10 and being trimmed by Thayer Academy...
...special feature of this year's debate will be a poll of audience opinion on the question, "Resolved, That this House approves the President's proposals to reorganize the judiciary," and will be broadcast over Station WAAB at 10 o'clock...
...from Monte-Carlo to Genova with a carload of flower-girls and dancers from Budapest. They all were in their native costumes where at Cannes they took part in the annual flower festival. Now, full of song and pranks, they were going back to their romantic Budapest. At every station we stopped they'd ask the porter to pick a few flowers for them--then they'd tickle his ear, give him a kiss and a postcard to mail. And what did they do with the flowers? They were getting ready for a battle. It began just before we reached...