Word: aug
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This ship is said to have covered more than 500,000 miles carrying passengers around the U. S. †The highest altitude ever reached by an airplane was 40,820 feet (almost 7½ miles) by Jean Callizo in a Bleriot-Spad biplane with Lorraine motor, on Aug...
Some two years ago (TIME, Aug. 24, 1925) one D. Alexander, of No. 99 Downing St., Brooklyn, operated a charming dispensary with a stock remarkably like that of "Dr." Pearce. He had Tie Down Goods instead of Tie-Them-Down and King Solomon's Marrow instead of King Solomon's Wisdom Stone. He also had some additional merchandise: Boss Fix Powders (to keep employers well disposed) Guffer (or Goof-er) Dust, Happy Dust, Easy Life Powder and Buzzard Nest...
...however, have had his stout hands under their chests as they began paddling into public attention. Hillyer Hawthorne Straton, eldest of the sons and now pastor of the New Berean Baptist Church in Philadelphia, had his father's help in getting ordained in spite of Baptist opposition (TIME, Aug. 2). Last week, "followed up" by Manhattan newspapers, Warren Badenock Straton also had his father to imitate...
Citizens of the U. S. have been wondering, ever since the last advent of M. Raymond Poincaré as Premier (TIME, Aug. 2) just when this firm and foxy statesman would ask the Chamber of Deputies to ratify the Franco-U. S. debt accord (TIME...
...occasion warranted. They took his advice in the matter of easing up on the Armenians-now no longer apt to be massacred like rats by Turks. They yielded when Admiral Bristol was grimly defending U. S. interests at the- drafting of the Treaty of Lausanne (TIME Aug. 6, 1923 et ante).* They wondered at his prodigious activities in directing U. S. relief among Baron Wrangel's shattered "White Russians" in Constantinople, and at Smyrna after the great fire. All Turks are sure, with proved reason, that Admiral Bristol is their inflexible, understanding friend...