Word: station
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last day of Ramadan, the month in which the Koran was revealed, and in the hill station of Kanwali. A battalion of the King-Emperor's Indian soldiers were observing Mohammed's strict law. During Ramadan, it is written, a Moslem must not enjoy the pleasures of food, drink, tobacco and women from that time in the morning when a white thread can be distinguished from a black one, until the hour of the evening when neither can be seen...
...ministry of art, worried about the trend Russian music was taking, flayed the works of Russian modernists for reflecting "leftist tendencies." Those curious to know what it was that worried Comrade Stalin will find it in Mossolov's pounding Steel Foundry and Meytuss' cacophonous Dnieper Water Power Station, both included on these discs...
Listeners tuned to station KECA (Los Angeles) last week heard that simple explanation of the mechanics of childbirth. Although it might have shocked other U. S. listeners, Angelenos were not even surprised. They know that KECA's Manager Harrison Holliway is not scared by radio's taboos, is always ready to broadcast sensible medical information shunned at most microphones...
When cancer and syphilis were under a general radio muffler, he aired lecture series on both. Last summer station KFI (Los Angeles), also Holliway-managed, lectured parents on their duties, illustrated the need for parental understanding by broadcasting the dramatized story of a 15-year-old girl with an advanced case of gonorrhea...
...pair moved way uptown (22nd Street) to cater to the carriage trade. As the city grew, George urged moving again; Andrew wanted to stay near Gramercy Park. George moved, Andrew stayed. George proved the wiser, for the very year he set up on 43rd Street, Grand Central Station moved right across the street, and his store flourished...