Word: stationer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...adopts an aloof, preoccupied, gentlemanly manner, as suitable to his station, and spends his time reading or writing or pacing thoughtfully up and down his cage, not noticing his visitors. In time, the four policemen may safely be reduced to two, and ultimately to one?public curiosity never centres for an undue length of time upon any one subject. Some slight difficulties he has with his keeper, Collins, who is in the beginning not quite cordial. For one thing, his coming had ousted the Gibbon and there is no hiding the fact that Collins would prefer to have the Gibbon...
Edouard Belin, French inventor, who -like engineers of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. (TIME, June 2) -has devised a machine for sending photographs by telephone, last week reported success in transmitting photographs by wireless. A picture sent from his wireless station at Malmaison, ten miles outside of Paris, was published in Le Matin. Convinced of the practicability of transmitting radio pictures between New York and Paris, he intends to establish receiving posts in New York in September...
Lieutenant Iseman at the Naval Reserve Air Station. Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn, will give fuller information to prospective applicants...
...Another unique exhibit (by Dr. Julius H. Hess, Chicago) was a completely equipped station for the care of premature infants. It included am electrically heated handbag for transporting premature babies from distant: points to the station, especially made garments, electrically heated cribs arid safe apparatus for bathing and feeding. Premature twins whose combined weight at birth was three and one-half pounds were brought by these methods to seven pounds each within three months...
Leaving the mooring mast at Lakehurst, N. J., about 7:15 one morning, the Shenandoah sailed over Trenton and Newark and high above the Hudson River ferries. Hailed by radio at Troy and at Schenectady, where the great broadcasting station of the General Electric Co. sent up weather reports requested by Commander Zachary Lansdowne, the Shenandoah reached Albany at noon...