Word: aug
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week, a General Claims Commission met to adjust Mexican and American Claims, excepting those which arose from acts connected with recent revolutions. The first Commission is to decide all claims within five years; the second is complete its task within three; both were provided for under Conventions (TIME, Aug. 27, 1923) signed in September 1923. Americans and Mexicans claimed millions of dollars from one another...
...marked on the map. In the "Cotton Ring," where brokers and traders are establishing the price for future cotton, the latter never long lose sight of the weather map. For just now, it is mostly a question of the weather how large the 1924 cotton crop will be. On Aug. 1, the Government estimated this year's crop at 12,351,000 bales. But its report of the "condition" of the crop on Aug. 16 was 64.9-from which fact the trade is beginning to talk of a 13,000,000-bale crop. The boll weevil, while...
...vice versa-and a swimmer's course is often 56 miles long through the shifting tides. It has been traversed several times, most recently and fastest (16 hr. 33 min.) by Enrique Tirabocchi, Argentine porpoise-man. Channel water, however, is warmer than the Firth of Forth. (TIME, Aug. 20, 1923). The Hellespont, between Gallipoli Peninsula and Asia Minor-famed in fable for being negotiated by Leander, amorous Greek, and in romance because Lord Byron did it for all his maimed leg-is a paddle of only three miles...
...guiding signal. As the planes flew overhead and down to the beflagged moorings in Ice Tickle, the Richmond's siren shrieked a welcome. On a cliff overlooking the mooring place was fixed a brass plate, made on the Richmond, already engraved: "American aviators completed world flight, Aug. 31, 1924." The trip was not "complete," having started from Santa Monica, Cal. But the fliers were back in North American waters, 5 months and 14 days after leaving them...
...fitting that a Brahms chamber-music cycle, a veritable Brahmsi-orgy, spread out over no less than two months, should have been celebrated this Summer at the "Temple of Chamber Music" at South Mountain, Pittsfield, Mass. Eight concerts were heard on successive Sunday afternoons, the last taking place on Aug. 31. The event was made possible by the financial devotion of Mrs. F. S. Coolidge, a real patroness, and by the artistic devotion of Maestro Willem Willeke, a real musician...