Word: station
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Victory Parade." At 7:45 p. m. on the last night of the campaign Nominee Landon's special train chuffed into Portland. Governor Brann was at the station to greet him, hand him a Maine fishing license. A whooping torchlight parade escorted him to the Municipal Stadium. There, a thick, cold mist had wet the folding chairs of his 15,000 auditors. Stepping out in his new fighting role, Alf Landon kept warm by shaking his clenched fist, pounding his reading desk with unaccustomed belligerency. His audience, chilled and uncomfortable as the one in Buffalo last month, was equally...
...motor car from Buckingham Palace was at the Vienna station and slipping behind its wheel the King drove Mrs. Simpson to their favorite Bristol Hotel, at which they stopped a year ago when he was Prince of Wales. After lunch His Majesty went to a public bath with his chauffeur and six detectives, booked his own ticket at the wicket. Handing this to an Austrian bathwoman who did not recognize him, the King was scrubbed and, with his chauffeur and detectives all in a state of nature, walked about the vapor room where His Majesty was recognized by goggle-eyed...
...same system carries wires for radio broadcasts from the short-wave station WIXAL and for the long-wave stations of the National Broadcasting Company. They also provide the sound pickup for the cameras of the news reel companies...
...come face to face with an entirely new Harvard. Better than all contemporary accounts, better than the few remaining contemporary pictures, I had seen this small group of buildings, clinging to the slender fringe of civilization along the shores of the Atlantic and being, of all things! a missionary station erected for the benefit of the Indians...
William E. Ayres, manager of the Delta Experiment Station: "It isn't a finished machine, but the Rusts are on the right track...