Word: station
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chinese plenipotentiaries sent by Generalissimo Chiang to make peace or at least a truce with Japan arrived by special train at Tangku to find neither motor cars nor any other conveyance at the station...
...quiet falls over the study in Topeka, Kansas." Three hours later the Sunflower Special chuffed out of Topeka on its last trip, taking the Republican Nominee back to his home town of Independence to vote. Some 5,000 of his neighbors were down at the Santa Fe station at 8 a. m. to cheer him, give him a 19-gun salute...
...Wallace Woodworth '24, Director of the Glee Club, will conduct from station WBZ Harvard's part of the program, including two late 16th century selections of the Italian school: "Tutti" by Nanine, and "Diffusa" by Gastoldi...
...Nominee armed with a $1,000 certified check to prove he was not a "vagrant." Again he did not make a highly successful speech because a court refused him an injunction against police interference, because 200 hoodlums with rotten eggs and soft tomatoes blocked his way into the radio station where he was to broadcast. Next he went to Tampa where he had just started to speak from a platform in an empty lot when a dozen hoodlums rushed in, knocked down several of his supporters with clubs and pistol butts, picked up the platform from behind, slid Nominee Browder...
...riot at the railway station Cripure takes the part of the soldiers, suddenly biffs a distinguished, patriotic colleague and is challenged to a duel. As he prepares his will in the certainty that he will be killed, strange things happen: his housekeeper, whom he had expected to be greedy for his money, turns out to try to fight for him. Others rush to his defense, old friends appear, his opponent is caught in some shabby trickery and Cripure saved. But the old faker, more startled at humanity's occasional goodness than at its depravity, ends his moment of peace...