Word: aug
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...further experiments to prove his bipolar theory of life came from Cleveland's Dr. George Washington Crile. He considers that every living cell is a tiny electrical cell, that the body is a battery with the brain the positive pole and the liver the negative pole (TIME, Aug. 30. 1926). Last week he reported that he had found that every living cell has a definite electrical potential, or tension; that as that potential decreases the cell becomes enfeebled until it dies. When an electric current with a potential opposite to that of a cell is passed through it, then...
...merely a money-losing subsidiary of International Paper & Power Co., a holding company formed last year when newsprint prices were bad and it became obvious that more valuable than International Paper's coniferous forests were the rivers that rushed through those forests with vast potential horsepower (TIME, Aug...
...tons of shipping in the decade since the War. The summer of 1929 was to have seen German mercantile prestige finally restored with added lustre by the completion of two new and superb liners, the Bremen and the Europa, expected to be fastest in the World (TIME, Aug. 27). There was a great swelling throb of joy in the solemn throat of Old Paul von Hindenburg as he launched the Bremen with these words: "Seventy years ago [when President Hindenburg was ten] the then young North German Lloyd launched its first vessel for trans-Atlantic service. It gave the craft...
...brought to the U.S. by Ambassador Myron Timothy Herrick on the maiden voyage of the Ile de France (TIME, July 4, 1927); and "The Peace Ship" carried Secretary of State and Mrs. Frank Billings Kellogg when he sailed to sign the Briand-Kellogg Pact Renouncing War in Paris (TIME, Aug...
Deep was the dent made by the collapse of crude rubber prices in the 1928 earnings reports of U. S. tire companies (TIME, Aug. 27). Had January-June deficits been continued into the end of 1928 and 1929, many an Akron executive must have felt it his duty to warn his family that a Spectre loomed not far ahead...