Word: stationer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Five of the six New England Governors (all but Rhode Island's Aram J. Pothier) sat down together in the waiting room of Boston's new North Station. The room had been converted for the moment into a banquet hall. They watched a light go on, made speeches. The light-lighter was, of course, President Coolidge, button-pushing in Washington. To President George Hannauer of the Boston & Maine R. R., President Coolidge telegraphed: ". . . The building is a credit to your company and the city." ¶ In consideration of $15.50, the State of Virginia issued a nonresident hunting license...
...books and pamphlets, and the number increases yearly. Building C, adjacent to the main Observatory building, contains the famous photographic collection of some 350,000 glass plates--a collection probably ten times as large as the next in size. The photographs were made partly at the Cambridge station, and partly at the various southern stations maintained by the Harvard Observatory during the past 45 years. All of these plates are in current use in the study of the motions, magnitudes, and variations of the stars and other celestial objects; they are studied not only by the Observatory staff, but also...
...Harvard Observatory is the station for the western hemisphere for the telegraphic distribution of current information on astronomical discoveries the service is supplemented by a series of announcement cards, distributed to the astronomical centers in America and Europe. The station was established in 1843 as an institution for original research in astronomical science and at the present time 50 men and women are associated in the work, a few of whom are students in Harvard and Radcliffe...
...clock this morning, 81 players, coaches, managers, doctors, rubbers, and attaches to the squad will entrain at the Back Bay station for New Haven. Early in the afternoon. Coach Horween will send the Crimson squad through a brief workout in the Bowl. Immediately afterward, they will journey to Wallingford, spending the night at the Choate School, whence they will leave for the Bowl again shortly before noon tomorrow...
Wellesley College in proved to be the temporary residence of those females who appeal the most, for the present at least, to the literary instincts of Harvard men. An average of 100, letters a day left the Cambridge station for Wellesley ladies between the hours of 9, and 3 o'clock each day. Letters which were the creations of inspirations of the twilight hour or evening left Cambridge through the central station, where their numbers could not be detected...