Word: station
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the Fact. In Rio de Janeiro, Butcher Manoel Silveira Merinho, arrested for selling his customers second-grade meat at first-grade prices, was released when the station-house cat ate the evidence...
...depressives. Using a technique devised by the University of Lisbon's emeritus professor Dr. Antonio Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz, skilled neurosurgeons cut away important nerve connections in the prefrontal brain lobe (a seat of reasoning) and the thalamus in the rear of the brain (a way station for emotional responses). The operation's aim: helping the patient to a better adjustment with his environment...
...Metuchen, N. J. He weeded the vegetable garden, fed the chickens and dug pestholes, while the Kornblatts' children helped him improve his English. Kornblatt gave him some advice which proved decisive: go to see Dr. Jacob Lipman, another Russian immigrant, head of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station at Rutgers...
...Student Employment Office was thrown into a tumult yesterday when it discovered that its last student bartender had decided gasoline was preferable to martinis and gone to work in a service station. The office usually has aboute ten bartenders...
Fresh from a junket at Yale, where they asked their hosts why so many students were "white shoes and striped ties," the group will arrive as South Station this afternoon at 2:25 and be met by a Boston Bar Association headed by Professor George K. Gardner of the Law School...