Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Moravian College (Bethlehem, Pa.) Mrs. August Belmont ... Litt.D...
...over Bryan ("Bitsy") Grant, who had beaten both in practice, chose Budge and Gene Mako as the U. S. doubles team. On the courts of the Germantown Cricket Club, where France won the Cup from the U. S. in 1927, Allison, whose game rarely reaches its peak till late August, proved that this year was no exception by losing to Australia's Adrian Quist. After a long, see-saw match, long-legged Budge put the U. S. back in the running with a courageous victory over Australia's wily old Jack Crawford...
Loomis has been in India for some time and has been attempting to establish a cache of food at the base of the mountain before the monsoon, which begins very soon, prevents any passage through the gorge. This bad weather, which will last until the end of August, will make it impossible to do more than go in to the entrance of the Rishinala where the party will wait until the first of September. Conditions should then be excellent for climbing until about the twentieth when the weather begins to make climbing dangerous...
...Mazo de la Roche, whose Jalna won in 1927. Last week another woman writer was similarly enriched when Mrs. Winifred Mayne Van Etten, 34, of Mt. Vernon, Iowa, received the 1936 Atlantic prize for a novel called I Am the Fox, which the Atlantic Monthly Press will issue in August...
...wage increase for all Chrysler workers. Pointedly President Kaufman Thuma Keller hinted that in the case of Chrysler employes, at least, the benefits of mass production had not reduced their purchasing power. In the last three years Chrysler has boosted wages three times, beginning with a 20% increase in August...