Word: aug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After reading the letter written by the Hon. A. Mitchell Palmer criticizing TIME'S use of the word "vague" in describing the Democratic platform (TIME, Aug. i), I became very much amused. It would be advantageous to the welfare of our country if leading American universities would offer instruction in logic and economics to our politically inclined friends...
Sirs: In your issue of Aug. i you state that Burke's "Landed Gentry" is printing an addendum, or "second section tactfully entitled 'Dislanded Gentry'." Might I suggest, for the sake of brevity and clarity, that Burke's name their new edition- "Indigentry...
...September, noon in June. Last week it was mid-afternoon in the Arctic as all over the world meteorologists, astronomers and geophysicists traveled to work for the Second International Polar Year. Their most exciting assignment was to watch for the effects of the Sun's eclipse on Aug. 31. Then will follow a dull, methodical twelve months of measurements, computations and recordings...
...South America have six stations each. Some 250 men, and a few women, were last week scattered between South Orkney Island off South America and Kraulshaferi, Greenland, between Hooker Island and Point Barrow, Alaska, whose spring icepack was a U. S. cinema villain last week in Igloo (TIME, Aug...
...prearranged hours of certain days all the stations will be doing the same thing. Thus at midnight. 2 :00 a. m., 6:00 a. m., 8:00 a. m.. noon. 2:00 p. m., 6:00 p. m. and 8:00 p. m. Greenwich Mean Time on Aug. 9-10, Sept. 13-14, Oct. 11-12, and so on around the calendar of the Polar Year's afternoon twilight, night and morning, each station will waft into the air a big rubber balloon. Hanging from many a balloon will be a small wireless transmitter whose whine will indicate...