Word: station
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Minor earthquakes made by students coming to classes caused the removal of the Seismograph Station from the University Museum says Dr. L. Don Leet, instructor in Geology and director of the present station...
Founded in 1908 by the late Jay G. Woodworth, professor of Geology, the station was housed for twenty-five years of continuous recording in the basement of the Museum. When it began to record small shocks every time classes met, the department decided to move it to the peace and quiet of Oak Ridge, near the Astronomical Observatory. Recordings were discontinued in the Museum in 1933, and are now carried on entirely at Oak Ridge. A new vertical machine has recently been added to the four horizontal ones brought from the old station...
Thence, after much merry-making, to take her home. But on the way did run out of gas; and it was a cold and we were far from any station, it did seem. Whereupon we did seek information at the nearest house: Wherein, after much knocking and waiting, a nice old lady in pink night gown did come and ask us "Dear Ones" into the parlor: "Abner will be right down". "Abner", coat over night shirt, did come almost immediately. I did feel most funny when he did ask me for my "license". He, I found, being hard of hearing...
With this fine controversial foreword WGN (Chicago Tribune), an independent station, put four Republican skits on the air. The Press printed the dialog next day in snatches, in chunks, in toto. The "March of Time" told the story on the air next evening, broadcasting most of one skit over the same Columbia network which had rejected it as a paying customer. Columnists and editorial writers loudly discussed the "suppression...
...lecture directly from the train, before he even put his bags in his room. The lecture was too much for our friend, however, and he gently dozed off. Noticing this, the watchful professor walked up beside the student and, in the approved conductor's fashion, yelled. "Back Bay Station." Whereupon, the student suddenly started up, grabbed his bags and ran out of the room. Daily Pennsylvanian...