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 ).

They were given consistent radio support by Sydney-based noncommercial rock station Double Jay ( 2JJ ), one of the first rock stations outside America to play their recordings.

As with other IEEE 802 LANs, each Ethernet station is given a 48-bit MAC address.

When the railway opened to Fort William on 7 August 1894, the station was given prime position at the south end of the town.

As of spring 2007 Keramikos is the name given to the metro station which belongs to Line 3 of the Athens Metro is adjacent to the Technopolis of Gazi.

Poster and billboard space ( and in the case of Gloucester Road tube station, an entire disused platform ) is given over to artwork and poetry to " create an environment for positive impact and to enhance and enrich the journeys of ... passengers ".

Every LORAN chain in the world uses a unique Group Repetition Interval, the number of which, when multiplied by ten, gives how many microseconds pass between pulses from a given station in the chain.

If a given newspaper, television station, magazine, etc., incurs governmental disfavor, it is subtly excluded from access to information.

The news headlines and station identification are therefore given just before a commercial.

The Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania were given no choice but to sign a so-called Pact of defence and mutual assistance which permitted the Soviet Union to station troops in them.

Stephenson argues that people continue to buy the station wagon despite free tanks being given away, because people do not want to learn how to operate a tank ; they know that the station wagon dealership has a machine shop that they can take their car to when it breaks down.

Italy, suspecting that San Marino could harbour Austrian spies who could be given access to its new radiotelegraph station, tried to forcefully establish a detachment of Carabinieri on its territory and then suspended any telephone connections with the Republic when it did not comply.

A person viewing by cable or satellite might not know what kind of organization is responsible for a given program, especially if it is syndicated, so what seems to be a station or a network may be neither.

The resting spots where the runaways could sleep and eat were given the code names " stations " and " depots " which were held by “ station masters ”.

* A teleprinter exchange facility signal that automatically causes a calling station to retry the call-receiver number after a given interval when the call-receiver teleprinter is occupied or the circuits are busy.

CA, or PCF relies upon the AP ( or the ' receiver ' for Ad hoc networks ) granting a station the exclusive right to transmit for a given period of time after requesting it ( Request to Send / Clear to Send ).

Such a master station controls one or more data links of the data communications network at any given instant.

The assignment of master status to a given station is temporary and is controlled by the control station according to the procedures set forth in the operational protocol.

At a given instant, there can be only one master station on a data link.

In U. S. telecommunications, a Wide Area Telephone Service ( WATS ) is a long distance service offering for customer dial-type telecommunications between a given customer station and stations within specified geographic rate areas employing a single telephone line between the customer user location and the serving central office.

The Cross has given its name to a railway station, a hotel, a hospital, a police station ; and two places of entertainment, the Charing Cross Theatre and the Charing Cross Music Hall ( which lay beneath the arches of the station ).

Line of sight distance d of this station is given by the Pythagorean theorem ;