Word: aug
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Aug. 22, 1910, Korea was formally annexed to Japan and the name changed to Chosen. By an Imperial Rescript of 1919, Chosen became an integral part of the Japanese Empire, and the equality of Koreans with Japanese was declared...
...failure of the Dardanelles campaign Mr. Churchill's veiled invective is brilliantly trenchant. He says: " We may pause to survey the scene on both sides of the front this sunny August afternoon [Aug...
...treaty, or at least the general terms of a treaty, were drawn up by the British Government with the approval of the Conference of Premiers of the British dominions, assembled in London. The acceptance of this plan by the British Government ended a long period of negotiation (TIME, Aug. 13) in which Secretary of State Hughes tried to make arrangements for searching rum ships which remain outside the three-mile limit. The British Government had little objection to helping America make itself dry, but it was entirely disinclined to relinquish the three-mile limit for territorial waters. Its reasons...
...katergy" theory (TIME, Aug. 27), all activity is the result of a difference ol potential. In the inorganic world the same difference exists, but the energy is always balanced, seeking a state of equilibrium. In man and other living things, energy is stored up, and the flow from positive to negative keeps going oxidation, movement and the other vital processes. The greater the difference in electrical potential, the greater energy the body possesses. Work spends it. Fatigue makes the difference less. Sleep restores it. With death the difference of potential vanishes. The brain cells have the most positive electricity...
Banting got it. The 1923 Nobel medicine award went to the 31-year-old discoverer of insulin, as forecast in TIME (Aug. 27). It will be equally shared by his superior in the physiology department of the University of Toronto, Dr. J. J. R. MacLeod, whose advice and cooperation speeded Dr. Banting's triumph. Dr. Banting announced that he would share his part of the award with Dr. C. F. Best, 23 years old, a fellow-graduate at Toronto, and co-worker in the insulin researches...