Word: stationer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile a letter was received anent a significant adventure which befell Mr. Felix Morley, able correspondent of the Baltimore Sun. Mr. Morley described how he had seen a big U. S.-built locomotive, "camouflaged and armored," come steaming into the little station of Ching Lung Chiao in lieu of the regular train to Peking and miraculously almost on time. "Instead of the nondescript trucks and decrepit coaches of the ordinary Chinese 'accommodation,' there was in tow just one caboose-like vehicle, labeled in clear English a ' wrecking car.' And equally in accord with China as she is today were...
Between Egypt and Italian Tripoli, just north of the great Libyan Desert, lies the tiny oasis-city of Jarabub, an excessively important water supply station for the trans-Libyan caravans. There in 1855 the potent sheik, Sidi Mohammed ben Ali ben Es Senussi el Khettabi el Hassani el Idrissi el Mehajiri, established the stronghold of his fraternity or sect, the Senussites, who continue to possess tremendous influence in the region...
Televisor. In London, a concern called Television Ltd. obtained licenses to retail the "televisor," a radio device invented by John L. Baird* of Glasgow that permits "looking in" as well as listening in. Broadcasting from a televisor station in London was to begin at once. The receiver, costing £30, consists of a point of light moving swiftly over a revolving field of ground glass. The motion of the point of light is governed by current received from the transmitting station, where the image of an object or person is made to pass over a photo-electric cell at immense...
...trip will take two days, and will include a journey in snowmobiles from the railroad station to the destination. All the equipment used by mountain climbers will be taken along, such as ice axes, ropes and crimpons...
...This "station system" would call for dividing the tables of the dining hall in such a way as to give an equal number of "places" to pairs of student waiters, who would confine themselves to their own stations, doing all the work there, as serving, cleaning, and resetting...