Word: aug
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dartmouth College received, by request, a report on "the liberal college," why it should exist, how it ought to work- from a dozen members of his Senior class. The students had gathered their information, resolved their theories, on visits to numerous U. S. institutions of higher learning (TIME, Aug. 4, 1924). Then, in May, President Hopkins received and had published A Study of the Liberal College by Prof. Richardson of the Dartmouth Chemistry Department, whom he had commissioned to visit colleges abroad, especially in England (TIME...
When the Department of Agriculture's estimate of the 1925 cotton crop as of July 16 dropped with a thud to 13,588,000 bales (TIME, Aug. 3), no little comment in the trade was occasioned. The report as of August 1 showed less startling changes. Condition had fallen off from 70.4 on the former to 65.6 on the latter date. Nevertheless, the crop was estimated at 13,566,000 bales-only 22,000 bales under the July 16 figure. Losses in Texas owing to drought have apparently been practically offset by gains in more easterly portions...
...York, N.Y. Aug...
...angry septuagenarian, Viscount Gladstone, and his elder brother, Henry N. Gladstone, to refute the slurs cast upon the name of the celebrated statesman, their late father, by "an insolent varlet, a professional mud-spatterer, a cowardly bootlicker" named Captain Peter Wright in his recent book, Portraits and Criticisms (TIME, Aug. 3, COMMONWEALTH). "Why don't they sue the stinking reptile?" such people have exclaimed in the vehemence of their sympathy. "Why don't they put their foot on him in court and crunch him into a smear? Why don't they...
...Forest Hills. For the second time within a fortnight, a large crowd rose to boo, hiss and deride a national champion. Thus Pugilist William Harrison Dempsey was treated in Los Angeles (TIME, Aug. 17). Thus, last week, a gallery received Miss Helen Wills when she stepped on the courts of the West Side Tennis Club to play with Miss Mary K. Browne against Miss McKane and Miss Colyer of England in a doubles match that would decide the international women's series for the Wightman Cup. The match score stood at 3-all. Mrs. Mallory, after half an hour...