Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...AUGUST FAST...
Invitations to participate in the program have been accepted by over 60 of the outstanding scholars in the world. These men will take part in a Tercentenary Conference of Arts and Sciences which will be held from August 31 to September 12 to deliver lectures, read papers, and participate in discussions in the principal fields of learning...
...Summer School session from July 5 to August 15 will be featured by having an unusually prominent faculty and special lecture and musical programs. Several of the learned societies will hold meetings in Cambridge during the interval before the Conference. During the greater part of the summer, the grounds, museums, libraries, buildings, and a large number of special collections illustrating various facilities of the University and events in its history will be open to the public...
...August 1935-Veterans of other wars had got back all they lost in 1933, but up to last week Spanish War veterans, including those who participated in the Philippine Insurrection and the Boxer Rebellion, had retrieved only 75%. A bill rushed through the House without opposition and passed by the Senate last fortnight with only one dissenting vote proposed to restore the final 25%. Last week the President signed it. The bill marked the death & burial of the long ailing Economy Act of 1933. It also represented a lobbying triumph of the first order...
...Edison cylinder last week, found to be singularly up-to-date and topical. The record, made at Her Majesty's command, voiced her goodwill toward the then Emperor of Ethiopia, great empire-building Menelik. Carried to his wild capital, a reproduction of the cylinder squeaked Victoria's august words into his hairy ear, while the original lay until last week in the archives of London's Edison-Bell...