Word: station
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President lunched with his eldest son's father-in-law, Dr. Harvey Gushing. Most enthusiastic crowd appeared in Socialist Bridgeport, but all through the shore towns of Fairfield County throngs packed the sidewalks and women and children were bumped by cars. At Stamford so many people jammed the station that it took police 15 minutes to get the President aboard his special, headed back to Washington...
...Paso, Tex. a physician boarded the train, ordered Nominee Landon to bed to save his throat for important speeches. Thereafter members of his party pinch hit before disappointed station crowds along the way, explaining that the Nominee was busy and "very tired." After a day of that. Alf Landon allowed them to reveal the real reason for his nonappearance...
...debate at Yale was broadcast on a New Haven station and was preceded by a torchlight parade through the college grounds...
...addition, through pioneer investigations launched by the scientists who brave the climate of the mountain summit year-around, the station, is rapidly becoming one of the country's most important centers of meteorological research...
...which low temperatures and high winds combine to make the coldest inhabited spot in the United States, it has been necessary for the observers to invent extremely rugged and specially adapted instruments for their work. Among the most famous of these is a heated anemometer, designed particularly for this station, which once registered a wind velocity of 231 miles per hour, far in excess of any previous measurements...