Word: station
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are 25 birds to a round. This means the competitor shoots one bird from each house (singly) at each of the eight stations; and one bird from each house (simultaneously) from stations one, two, six, and seven. That makes 24. If he breaks all 24 birds, he can shoot his last one from any station and from either house. Otherwise, he want shoot the last bird from the place where he first missed...
...course, was taking care of visiting athletes. With only a few exceptions, such as local teams, representatives met every athletic squad that has played at Harvard this year, including ones that showed up at 7 a.m. A Key member would pick the team up at the railroad station and stay with it as long as he was needed, supplying maps, nickles for phone calls, and sometimes even dates for the visitors...
...doomed Nanking, Nationalist artillery still fired an occasional shot toward Communist positions on the Yangtze's north bank. Retreating Nationalist soldiers poured back across the river in tugboats and barges. In the yellow glare of the capital's bare electric street lights, they shuffled toward the railway station. The trains they hoped to take to the south never came. A soldier guarding a ferry building watched the routed men and said: "They have been coming back all night. I don't know what's going on, but I'm scared...
...earth's new-found neighbors are not the kind to attract attention to themselves. Dr. Luyten, Java-born and Holland-educated, discovered them only by comparing photographic plates made at the Harvard College Observatory's station in South Africa in 1930 with other plates made there in 1944. So shy and retiring are the twins that their light would have to be 100 times stronger than it is to be seen by the naked...
...agreed to match one undergraduate team's collections, handed over $103; a waitress gave her day's tips of $1.17. Some landladies of student boarding houses offered a month's free rent if the money were given to the college. As the local radio station and newspaper spread the story, more kept pouring...