Word: aug
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...become Britain's first and sole Labor Prime Minister (Jan.-Nov. 1924). At that time, though his term of office was short, he became the first statesman in Europe to chairman the drafting of a negotiated agreement with post-War Germany. This was the London Settlement of Aug. 14, 1924, on the basis of which the Dawes Plan went into effect and France abandoned her ruthless occupation of the Ruhr...
Because Premier Poincaré has given France a strong Cabinet at last and has stabilized the franc (TIME, Jan. 3) the prestige of his ministers is increasing to a pitch which would have been deemed unattainable when the cabinet was formed (TIME, Aug...
...there were those who hoped and whispered that he had been born beneath a Shavian rose. Today, however, weighty British reference works have pinned down this elusive youth with the finality of taxidermists transfixing a butterfly. His name shall be henceforth Col. Thomas Edward Lawrence, his birth date Aug. 15, 1888, his land of origin Wales; and if the taxidermists have made a mistake, the joke is still very much upon the butterfly...
Doctors now realize the value of simple, explanatory articles on cancer, heart disease, tuberculosis, pneumonia, rheumatic fever, quackery, and so on (TIME, May 3, 17, June 21, Aug. 30, Sept. 13 Oct. 4, 18, 25, Jan. 17, 31, Feb. 7, 14, etc.). But a few doctors yet lag with their cooperation. These men President Wendell C. Phillips of the American Medical Association scolded last week, when he opened a conference of 50 voluntary and public health organizations at Chicago. Said he: "The medical profession should throw off its mask of reticence and its shrinking attitude toward reasonable publicity concerning health...
...engineers of the Holland vehicular tunnel, connecting Manhattan & New Jersey (TIME, Aug. 30), held a "smoker" last week. They exploded smoke bombs in the cavern they had built, far under the Hudson River, to produce a volume of fumes equivalent to that which would be caused if an automobile burned up on its way through one of the two tubes. Object: to test the ventilating system, upon which the whole success of the tubes depended. Result: complete success. The fumes did not spread more than 50 feet; were swept out of the tunnel in less than two minutes. . . . The problem...