Word: station
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opportunity presented itself in the Lathrop, Calif, railroad station in the summer of 1889. By that time, the U. S. Attorney General had heard of Terry's threats, provided Justice Field with a bodyguard. He was U. S. Deputy Marshal David Neagle, remembered as "a man of small stature but strong, left-handed and quick with a gun." He was standing by when Sarah Terry and her husband entered the station restaurant, spied Justice Field at a table. Mrs. Terry turned on her heel, left the room. The 66-year-old onetime Chief Justice of California's Supreme...
...national network a round table discussion of some matter of current interest in political economic, or cultural realms. A good many people regard these discussions as the most stimulating on the air, and it is greatly to be regretted that they are no longer available through a Boston station...
...that has ever passed. It started yesterday morning when the official receiver roused himself even before the cock knew it was daylight and hastened to meet a train. A crop of photographers had been carefully informed to the second of the time the train arrived. They were at the station seven minutes before--a marvelous feat, the representative came two minutes later--still more marvelous, but the train had crossed both and arrived ten minutes early...
Hinckley took his loss with good nature. "Well, that station's off the air," he said. "You can send my CRIMSON over to Brookline tomorrow...
...much in the way cotton piece goods is imported from Japan rather than England, modernization of the Hyderabad State Railways and the still somewhat novel issues raised by electricity. The words on a modernistic building of which Hyderabad is proud are not in native characters but read "POWER STATION" (see cut, above), and the Nizam has promised communal radio sets to every town and village...