Word: station
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with her lady-in-waiting, Mrs. George Pape. They were met at the Canadian border by Richard Southgate, chief of the State Department's Division of Protocol, and by additional military and naval aides supplied by the U. S. They were met again at Washington's Union Station by Secretary of State Hull, by the U. S. Minister to Canada, by the Canadian Minister and the British Ambassador, by General Craig, Admiral Leahy, Major General Holcomb, ranking officers of the Army, Navy and the Marine Corps, by detachments of sailors and marines drawn up in the station...
...Tabernacle and Overseer Voliva later said he heard 15 explosions. Zion's head theocrat frantically summoned firemen. Le Roy Peacy, the salesman who was Christus in the Passion Play, rescued his costume, but the building burned quickly, set fire to the Church's adjacent broadcasting station, lay in ruins before Zion and Waukegan firemen could do much about...
...Carnegie Institution's seismograph station on Mt. Wilson in California, Dr. Hugo Benioff has built recorders which work by electromagnetism. The weight is a magnet hung so that its poles are a tiny fraction of an inch from the armature. When an earth tremor twitches the armature, the distance between it and the magnet changes slightly, altering the magnetic field and creating a tiny electric current which is amplified by vacuum tubes. This current fluctuates the light beam which makes the record, also twitches a galvanometer needle. In the Benioff seismograph, earth movements are magnified 200,000 times...
...wedding of Margaret Annis ("Peggy") Best, 24, daughter of Admiral Hon. Sir Matthew Robert Best who commands the British Navy's America & West Indies Station, was postponed a month when she and Bridesmaid-to-be Ruth Dora Backhouse, daughter of Admiral Sir Roger Roland Charles Backhouse who commands the British Home Fleet, both suffered severe brain concussions in a bicycle accident near Hamilton, Bermuda...
...Radio Station WOR sponsored the event, which was broadcast over a coast-to-coast network. Entries were put up by the various college newspapers...