Word: auge
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wish to protest the indictment of humane societies in the report on the Pentagon's practice of purposefully wounding dogs to give military physicians patients to work on [Aug. 8]. The article states: "Defense Department researchers were planning to pay licensed dealers $80 to $130 for each doomed dog, instead of buying unclaimed dogs from humane societies-which would have put them to death anyway-for as little as $3 to $10 a head...
...Thursday, Aug. 2, the President showed an active interest in his plans. He asked for some "oldfashioned blackberry juice." Towards evening the President seemed in good health. Mrs. Harding was reading aloud. Without warning a tremor shook his frame and he collapsed. Physicians announced that the President had died of cerebral apoplexy at 7:30 p. m., Pacific time...
...crash came on Oct. 23, 1929, is as mysterious as why the World War chanced to begin on Aug. 4, 1914. Vital point is the undermining of popular confidence that ended in the crash. The September slump was of tremendous importance in its indication that a Market which could survive only by constant rises had reached the limits of its climb. Slowly the Market began to realize that 1929 might be an abnormal year, a high-water year instead of one more level in a still-rising tide. If this fear were well founded, what then...
...first U.S. newsman to enter Paris, TIME'S Chief War Correspondent Charles Christian Wertenbaker, entered the city through the Porte d'Orleans at 9:40 a.m., Friday, Aug. 25. His report...
...deposed, and now, seemingly, planets conquered. Equally important are the great groundswells of popular movements that affect the minds and values of a generation or more. Looking back upon the America of the '60s, future historians may well search for the meaning of one such movement, on Aug. 15 through 17, 1969, on the 600-acre farm of Max Yasgur in Bethel...