Word: station
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...honor of the Bowlfest and the accompanying stream of displaced Harvard men, a special gridiron edition of the CRIMSON will be distributed free at key points in New Haven. After 9 a.m., copies will be distributed at the Yale Station, all Dining Halls, main entrances to the Old Campus, and the railroad station...
Connecticut Company, which runs the only public transportation other than taxis in New Haven, plans to begin continuous railroad station to Bowl service at 10:15 a.m. Saturday at 25 cents a passenger...
...Madam President on the rostrum (see cut), perhaps telling the girls: "The treasurer wants me to announce that unless some of the members pay their back dues, she will simply lose her mind." In Miss Hokinson's own favorite cartoon, her heroine was telephoning home from the police station with a contrite bulletin: "Albert, I did something wrong on the George Washington Bridge...
Stimulated Sight. Scientists have long known that the eyes and the ears are not the actual instruments of sight and hearing, but highly selective transmission stations which pick up light and sound waves, translate them into electrical impulses, and carry them to the visual and auditory areas of the brain. In the brain, the impulses are finally translated into the sensations that are recognized as anything from a Grandma Moses painting to the radio-chant of the tobacco auctioneer. Most blindness or deafness and many kinds of paralysis are caused by the failure of the transmission station-the eyes...
...Krieg wants to try the same technique with deafness and paralysis. In some kinds of paralysis, he theorizes, the patient could be equipped with an apparatus (as a substitute transmission station for damaged nerves), worn at the hip or knee and turned on or off by the patient. A manually operated switchboard might select such a desired motion as walking...