Word: stationed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sticking by him all the time. . . . Papa is a two-gun man. . . ." Escaping Senator Connally's sober supervision, Junior set forth to inspect some of New York's 32,000 speakeasies.- He came to no good, bringing up in a police station whence he had to be rescued by his father's secretary, J. L. Thornton, who bustled him to the capital. Senator Heflin awaited his boy's homecoming on the station platform. Instead of "hell," he, a fond parent, gave his prodigal a full-bosomed embrace and loving forgiveness. The reconciliation was interrupted when Senator...
Deadshots who annually arrive at Bisley station with their gun cases, their wind gauges, their range finders, telescopes and tallow candles (for blackening front sights) never notice Bisley village, never notice Bisley church, and they have positively ignored Dr. John Gwyon, rector of Bisley Church for 33 years...
...wide semicircle of trenches was dug south of Jiminez railway station. There the insurrectos piled in and waited for the army of dapper General Almazan, plodding across the desert...
...afternoon the federal left wing reached the town. Street fighting commenced. The railway station, which had become a veritable fortress with sandbags and machine guns, was captured. At the height of the battle federal cavalry was sent to cut the railway north of Jiminez and prevent the rebels escaping. A lucky shot by a federal bombing plane exploded an ammunition train behind the town. The rebels, believing themselves surrounded, fled. Jiminez was captured...
...used to run its trains under the Hudson River through the Pennsylvania's tunnels into Pennsylvania Station, Manhattan. For almost two years the B. & O. has been motoring its passengers by bus between Manhattan and Jersey City (its own terminus). The B. & O. bus terminal in Manhattan is opposite Grand Central Terminal. *Besides harvesting machinery, International Harvester also makes motor trucks, motor coaches, gasoline and oil engines, wagons, farm implements and binder twine...