Word: aug
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hague and at Gothenburg, Sweden, between Aug. 12 and 24, the Congress of Americanists, in two sessions. The Americanists, students of the story of America, historic and prehistoric, have among their number many nationalities and represent many fields of research...
...Marie Laparcerie lost her suit for plagiarism against Victor Margueritte (TIME, Aug. 6), the jury declaring that La Garqonne was original and that the former's Rosine's Lovers had not been copied or used...
When the Lausanne Treaty was signed last year (TIME, Aug. 6) there were many things left unsettled, and one of them was the Mosul question.* In the palace of the Turkish Admiralty on the Golden Horn, representatives of Britain, France and Turkey assembled to settle the thorny problem of Mosul. After much wrangling the conference broke up, a settlement having been impossible. Britain will take the matter before the League, but at present the Turks protest against such action...
...opinion and that they wanted to intervene. Then came the violation of Belgian neutrality before anything could be decided about Luxembourg. There was no longer any doubt, Britain would go to war; M. Cambon had scored another diplomatic victory. In 1920 at the time of his resignation, he said : "Aug. 1, 2, 3, 1914, were the only days of real difficulty in all the years I have spent in London...
...Felton, like Dr. Banting, discoverer of insulin (TIME, Aug. 27), is young, modest, unassuming. Born 32 years ago in Pinegrove Mills, Pa., he spent most of his youth in New Philadelphia, Ohio, was graduated in 1916 from Johns Hopkins University. He has been at Harvard since...