Word: station
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago police, as he prowled about the Gold Coast early one morning, absorbing local color. He talked strangely, too, after the cops picked him up. "I'm a jack-roller," he cracked, refusing to give his name, "but the pickings are pretty thin tonight." Later, at the station house, he let them in on the gag, and they let him off on $10 bond...
...observers watch the rocket with telescopes. One station notes the east-west component in the rocket's course; the other the north-south component. Set up in front of each telescope is a "sky screen" with curved lines on it. If the rocket crosses one of these lines, it is likely to fly out of bounds...
...usual, the freshmen came early. In a cold drizzle, four upper classmen with big "Ask-Me" badges on their coats waited impatiently on the station platform for the 9:03 to round the bend. Among its passengers would be the first wave of the Class of '53. The train was half an hour late...
...Wallace was one of the first to market a commercial strain of hybrid seed, but he did not invent the process. Many present-day methods of hybrid corn production can be traced back to the work of Professor George H. Shull around 1906 at the Station for Experimental Evolution in Cold Spring Harbor...
...Cornell team arrives at 9:05 a.m. today at the Huntington Avenue Station. The Big Red will work out in the Stadium from 2:30 to 4 p.m., after which Harvard will follow it into the oval. The Cornell team will stop at the Kenmore Hotel during its stay in Boston...