Word: station
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mulhouse, across No Man's Land under the muzzles of Germany's guns, and up to Basel, Switzerland-first French train to arrive there since the end of August. Explained the engineer: "We had a lot of stuff consigned to Switzerland sitting in the freight station ... so I thought I might as well bring it along...
...cyclotron (spiral atom-smasher), recently completed a new 220-ton cyclotron, so far the world's biggest, most powerful. Last week he gave a progress report on this monster in operation. With a power input of only 50 kilowatts (more than enough to run a good-sized radio station), he and his crew have obtained beams of 16-million-volt heavy hydrogen particles and 32-million-volt helium particles. With the 32-million-volt beam, new radioactive substances throwing off electrified helium gas have been discovered. The machine has performed so well that Dr. Lawrence now wants a bigger...
Wheeler's body was in the morgue of the Worcester City Hospital last night, waiting to be claimed by relatives. Clay spent the night at the Shrewsbury police station and is expected to return here this morning...
...Devine tightened his grasp on the regular left end position over Gene Lovett by holding forth at that station all afternoon. And Club Peabody now rates a slight edge on Don Lowry in their nip-and-tuck scrap for the starting left guard assignment. Dick Pfister is his running mate at right guard...
...thousand books are found only course texts with few additional volumes. The difference between this number and the one hundred thousand books contained in the Center is a measure of the greater amount of material that is to be located there. While House libraries serve only as academic filling stations, the Book Center would be an educational super-service station...