On a shelf in the office behind the counter was a small radio dialed permanently on a station which broadcast only vulgar commercials and cheap popular music.

The first act of Adoniram and Samuel on reaching Calcutta was to report at the police station, a necessity when landing in East India Company territory.

There a certain farmhouse was a station for the Sons of Liberty.

When he was bent over behind the wheel of the station wagon, feeling in his trouser cuffs for the ignition key which he had dropped a moment before, she came out of the house with an enormous Rumanian shawl over her head, which she had bought in that country during one of their trips abroad, and handed him a clean handkerchief through the window.

In the grand court of the Palace, notable for its tiers of Moorish galleries that looked down on the maelstrom of vehicles below, Vernon's station was at the entrance.

In the railway station at Berlin, a uniformed attendant was chanting, ' Foreigners this way!!

This was extended the following year to include the railroad station agent's office and Thayer's Hotel at Factory Point.

The radar station with the best location was still not serviceable.

While accounts of the progress of the tsunami came in from various points in the Pacific ( Midway reported it was covered with nine feet of water ), the Hawaiian station made its calculations and notified the military services and the police that the first big wave would arrive at Honolulu at 23:30 Greenwich time.

It was the station wagon that had passed his cab on the road, the station wagon that had been parked at the Burch farm.

He sucked in his breath and kept quiet while Killpath laid down the sheet again, wound the gold-wire stems of his glasses around his ears and then, eying the report as it lay before him on the desk, intoned, `` Acting Lieutenant Gunnar Matson one failed to see that the station keeper was properly relieved two absented himself throughout the entire watch without checking on the station's activities or the whereabouts of his section sergeants three permitted members of the Homicide Detail of the Inspector's Bureau to arrogate for their own convenience a patrolman who was thereby prevented from carrying on his proper assignment four failed to notify the station commander Acting Captain O. T. Killpath of a homicide occurring in the district five frequented extralegal establishments known as after-hours spots for purposes of an unofficial and purportedly social nature and six '' -- he leaned back and peeled off his glasses `` -- failed to co-operate with the Acting Captain by returning promptly when so ordered.

Slowly he pulled out the hand throttle until the boat was moving at little more than a crawl, and watched Elaine rapidly spin from one station to another, tune in the null, then draw in a line on the chart.

I asked an old guy running a fishing station if the boat was Moore's.

At the feeding station, the raffish group of cowbirds again bobbed and gobbled over the ground, but now, gorgeous among them, was a beautiful red cardinal, radiant in its feathered vestments.

The most common explanation suggests that the name was taken from the railway station in Marple, Stockport, through which Christie passed, with the alternative account that Christie took it from the home of a Marple family who lived at Marple Hall, near her sister Madge's home at Abney Hall.

In 2008, a former goods shed by the main railway station of Abensberg was converted into a theatre by local volunteers.

Aachen's railway station, the Hauptbahnhof ( Central Station ), was constructed in 1841 at the Cologne-Aachen railway line and replaced in 1905, moving it significantly closer to the city centre.

W7ASU is an amateur radio station that was first organized in 1935.

" The next stop, station six, was a blocky crater, where the astronauts believed they could sample the Cayley Formation as evidenced by the firmer soil found there.

At station nine, an area known as the " Vacant Lot ", which was believed to be free of ejecta from South Ray, Young and Duke spent about forty minutes gathering samples.

Later, the station at Perano Head on the east coast of the island was used to hunt humpback whales from 1911 to 1964 ( see Whaling in New Zealand ).

Action on a new ordinance permitting motorists who plead guilty to minor traffic offenses to pay fines at the local police station may be taken at Monday's special North Providence Town Council meeting.

On the following day, 29 April, Mussolini's and Petacci's bodies were taken to the Piazzale Loreto in Milan and hung upside down in front of a petrol station.

Views of Saturn from the space station inhabited by the character Caroline Holmes in this section were inspired by images of Saturn taken during the Voyager flybys.

In the films, Luthor is established as an elusive, high-profile criminal who has taken refuge in an extensively restored abandoned subway station under the streets of Metropolis.

The measurements taken at a weather station can include any number of atmospheric observables.

He is arrested and taken to be a police station where he is accused of being an android before escaping with fellow bounty hunter Phil Resch after deducing that the station was fake and staffed by androids.

Displaced Romans were furious, and resentment of this act was still felt centuries later, when the decision was taken to build the central pontifical railroad station ( begun in 1869 ) in the area of the Villa, marking the beginning of its destruction.

Congolese culture minister Christoph Muzungu decided to reinstate the statue in 2005, pointing out the sense of liberating progress that had marked the beginning of the Free State and arguing that people should see the positive aspects of the king as well as the negative ; but just hours after the six-metre ( 20 ft ) statue was erected in the middle of a roundabout near Kinshasa's central station, it was taken down again without explanation.

Thoms had been driven by car and had not taken the train to the station where police were searching.

The civil airport, a flying boat station on Darrell's Island, was taken over by the RAF at the start of the war, and used by two commands.

To be useful, it was necessary to find the exact location ( latitude and longitude ) of the ' station ' where a gravity measurement was taken, so pendulum measurements became part of surveying.

Venditti succeeded in getting the old transmitter to work and at first his new Love 16 station ( a name taken from the 1570 AM frequency ), broadcast an English language format composed of a mixture of soft rock, oldies, middle-of-the-road, country and Big Band music.

She applies for a secretarial job at TV station WJM, but that is already taken.

New systems incorporated into the station included the Salyut 5B digital flight control computer and gyrodyne flywheels ( taken from Almaz ), Kurs automatic rendezvous system, Luch satellite communications system, Elektron oxygen generators, and Vozdukh carbon dioxide scrubbers.

Livy defines his station in the defense as " on guard at the bridge when he saw the Janiculum taken by a sudden assault and the enemy rushing down from it to the river ...." The three defenders of the bridge withstood sword and missile attacks until the troops had all crossed.

When the railways were privatised in 1996, express services into the station were taken over by GNER.

An alternative plan was devised in the 1970s to extend the Jubilee line parallel to the River Thames: this would have taken the line from Fenchurch Street to Thamesmead via St Katharine Docks, Wapping, Surrey Docks North, Millwall ( near to South Quay DLR station ), North Greenwich, Custom House, Silvertown, Woolwich Arsenal, and thence to Thamesmead.

If TBTC fails on an individual train then it would be put into Restricted Manual mode, which means that the train operator can drive the train at 5 – 10 mph ( 8 – 16 km / h ) to the next station, where the train would be taken out of service until the fault is mended by technicians.

This data was taken between 1971 and 2000 at the weather station in Greenwich, around south of the town hall, at Mulberry Place:

Route 4 in Fair Lawn, New Jersey | Fair Lawn, taken from northbound train at Broadway ( NJT station ) | Broadway Station. Route 4 starts in Paterson, Passaic County at the intersection of Broadway and East 43rd Street at an interchange with Route 20 ( McLean Boulevard ), heading east on Broadway, a four-lane, divided highway with a Jersey barrier and a speed limit of.

The opportunity was taken to replace the nearly life-expired Northern Line escalators as well, which took a few days longer ; the Northern Line station reopened, completing the return of King's Cross St. Pancras to normal operation, on 5 March 1989.

The station was named " Elmwood ", but it was soon discovered that this name was already taken by a locality in Peoria County.