Word: aug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dark McGuffey Sirs: I have read with interest in your Aug. 3 issue your account of the recent meeting of the Federated McGuffey Societies at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the publication of the McGuffey Readers...
Sirs: As a result of reading your article on Charles Phelps Taft [TIME, Aug. 3];, may we be among the first to cast two votes of admiration for a real American-who keeps both feet on the ground, and through clear thinking and action has brought about a greater measure of right and justice for people and institutions within his sphere of influence...
Your Art article [TIME, Aug. 10] about Harvard's model forest says that the leaves were "etched out of paper-thin sheets of copper picked up with a magnet...
...nutrition research, mice for cancer and monkeys for poliomyelitis, so ferrets are invaluable to influenza investigators. Ferret reactions were the basis of Harvard's Dr. William Firth Wells's demonstration last month that ultraviolet radiation kills the unknown germ or virus which causes that disease (TIME, Aug. 3). But many doctors think it probable that some infectious agencies change their form in different environments. The question remained: While human influenza could be communicated to ferrets, could ferret influenza be communicated...
...world's biggest cotton futures market to a silent halt. The U. S. Crop Reporting Board, having been locked in secret session in Washington since dawn, was about to release its first estimate of the U. S. cotton crop for the new crop year which opened Aug. 1. Trading also stopped on the country's other two cotton futures markets, in Chicago and New Orleans. On the spot markets scattered throughout the cotton belt the morning's desultory dickering petered out. In Britain the Liverpool Cotton Market had closed for the day, but traders would...