Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...captain of the Surgical Corps, I was in the service of the Turkish Army, from the middle of August 1914 to the end of October...
...Chiang's bond is as bad as his word and rattled its accoutrement along the Great Wall. At that civilian Japanese leaders said Japan's troops had been instructed by the "highest authority" (the Son of Heaven) not to move into China without an Imperial Order-something august and rarely given. In Tokyo suppressed excitement grew so thick that Japanese would not have been surprised had civilian Foreign Minister Koki Hirota or War Minister General Yoshiyuki Kawashima been assassinated last week. Japan's man-on-horseback, Emperor Hirohito, and China's Generalissimo Chiang seemed momentarily...
...cabled column to telling U. S. readers about one issue of it. Unique is Crapouillot in devoting each issue to a single subject. Because it reminded him of Humphrey Cobb's best-selling novel Paths of Glory (TIME, June 3), Columnist Pegler had been attracted by the August 1934 issue, which told the appalling stories of a few of the luckless French soldiers whose Wartime deaths by execution were aimed to teach their comrades proper respect for superior officers...
...replaced by the Army's idol and the King's close friend. Marshal Pietro Badoglio, greatest of Italy's surviving World War commanders and in 1928, when Mussolini had been Dictator for six years, created Marquis of the Sabotino, the mountain he captured in August 1916 during the Battle of Gorizia. In November 1917 he was made the public goat of Italy's most inglorious rout at Caporetto, but within the Army his Kudos as a commander did not evaporate and he became sole Sub-Chief-of-Staff under Italian Commander in Chief General Diaz...
Although this question has become a community concern, it will never be solved until each driver has learned to drive sanely. During the summer the article, "And Sudden Death" brought home clearly the realities of this situation. In August the Hartford-Times initiated a safety campaign which has spread to over a hundred newspapers. These are the community ways of impressing each individual with his own responsibility...