Word: aug
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Whereas Gerald Chapman was convicted in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York of robbery of mail matter and placing the life of a mail carrier in jeopardy, and was sentenced Aug. 23, 1922, to imprisonment for twenty-five years in the United States penitentiary at Atlanta...
...Arica, port of the Chilean-governed province of Tacna-Arica, to supervise a plebiscite ordered by President Coolidge, as arbitrator, to decide the future sovereignty of the provinces of Tacna and Arica, wrested by Chile from Peru when those nations were embroiled in the early '80's (TIME, Aug. 3, et ante...
...suffered his humiliating contact with the asphalt. Archbishop Platon had simply clapped his hands and shouted in Russian: "Throw him out!" The disgruntled Kedrovsky, a naturalized U. S. citizen, at once filed suit against Archbishop Platon. Thus began an interminable, ludicrous and involved dispute (TIME, Jan. 5, Aug...
...Hammond has claimed for his invention that it makes possible greater sonority, more lasting tone, alteration in the quality of the tone after it has been struck (TIME, Aug. 31). No wonder the assembly stared as Pianist Donahue, supported by Conductor Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra, sank his fingers into the keyboard. They heard Rachmaninov's dense symphonic thunders rendered to the last chord, and they shook their heads. Definitely, it was a disappointment. There had been moments-in the adagio, in the arpeggiated chords of the cadenza-when the sustaining power of the instrument was evident...
President Keppel of the Carnegie Foundation took occasion to rap the regents of the University of Wisconsin for turning down an offer of a $600,000 endowed medical school from the Rockefeller Foundation (TIME, Aug. 17, Oct. 26). The regents' reason was fear of domination by the donor, and their resolution included all incorporated foundations. Said President Keppel: "It is hard to conceive that a fair-minded man or woman should fail to realize that the broadly co-operative character of these operations offers the most effective safeguard, if safeguard were needed, against any employment of these trust funds...