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Word: station (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rushed to the White House to group themselves around him in a final tableau. Then he disappeared into the wings, proceeded to his dressing room for intermission: Secretaries Hull and Roper, Attorney General Cummings, Senator Hugo LaFayette Black drove with him through slush-filled Washington streets to the Union Station. He boarded his private car accompanied by his usual batch of secretarial assistants, his daughter-in-law Betsey Roosevelt and an unannounced addition, William C. Bullitt, U. S. Ambassador to France. Twenty-four hours later he was in Warm Springs, Ga., driving around at the wheel of his old manual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Entr'acte | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

Rationally denying the advisability of minimum wage and maximum hour legislation, the Debating Council met a team from the College of the Pacific yesterday afternoon, in a non-decision debate broadcast from station WAAB. Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGE OF PACIFIC DEBATES WITH COUNCIL | 3/12/1937 | See Source »

Nothing is unusual about the seeming plethora of earthquakes throughout the United States recently, according to L. Don Leet, director of the University's Seismograph Station at Harvard, Mass. Although the recent ramblings have achieved wide newspaper attention, he said, there are actually several thousand earthquakes yearly throughout the world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EARTHQUAKES NOT FAULT OF ROOSEVELT, SAYS LEET | 3/11/1937 | See Source »

...State of Maine trembles, the Department of Geology will know it, for a seismograph station is being established in the Portland home of Roger L. Arringdale at 211 Ocean Avenue. Directed by Arringdale, the new staton will be in operation within a month...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW SEISMOGRAPH NOT DISTURBED BY TRUCKS | 3/11/1937 | See Source »

Consequently the equipment was transferred to a special concrete room at the Oak Ridge Observatory, based on solid rock. Continual observations are made here, and the station cooperates with others in locating quakes, using radio communication...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW SEISMOGRAPH NOT DISTURBED BY TRUCKS | 3/11/1937 | See Source »

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