Word: euston
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reason why they don't go to church is that they don't and can't believe what is taught there. Once people believed that they were going to heaven or hell in the same sense that they would get to Manchester if they started from Euston and to Brighton if they went from Victoria. Nothing can revive that belief. Once they believed that Christian principles had something to do with public conduct. But why should . . . anybody . .. expect people to go to church and listen with respect to a priest reading the Sermon on the Mount, when...
...echoing train shed behind the grimy Greek façade of London's Euston Station, Driver Ambrose Grant climbed into the cab of locomotive Number 5508. The bells of London joined the shrilling of train whistles to welcome a new year. Guard Arthur Smith switched his lamp from red to green, waved the "go ahead" to Driver Grant, and swung into the guard's van. At two minutes past midnight, Number 5508 chuffed out of the station for the run to Crewe. It pulled the first nationalized train to leave London...
...London's Euston and King's Cross Stations, clocks which have long been set a few minutes fast, to give suburbanite season-ticket-holders (commuters) a margin of safety, were suddenly set right. Commented the approving Manchester Guardian: ". . .A time addict . . . must either go on increasing the dose by putting his watch still farther forward or admit that his existing ration no longer produces the desired effect...
...father's intense annoyance, Elizabeth's name has been linked in gossip columns with two genealogically suitable young Britons. They are Hugh Denis Charles Fitzroy, Earl of Euston. and Charles John Robert Manners. Duke of Rutland. Both are 25, Etonians. Cambridge men, junior officers in the Grenadier Guards (Elizabeth is their Colonel...
...Much of London's jumbled railroad system would be moved out to a ring line encircling the city. Within the ring all railroad lines would be electrified and underground. Liverpool Street, Waterloo and London Bridge stations would be moved to the ring. Euston, King's Cross, St. Pancras stations would be amalgamated. Victoria, Paddington, Marylebone would remain where they...