Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last month Charles R. Henschel, president of august old Knoedler & Co.. went down to J. Pierpont Morgan's imposing Manhattan library. He had just been made agent for the private sale of a very important painting and wanted to give Mr. Morgan first crack at it. Puffing a black cigar. Banker Morgan smiled...
Chairman, Benjamin S. Foss '36; Secretary, James H. Dixon '35: treasurer James E. Downes, Jr. '35. Representing the navy: Edward C. Allen '35, Francis P. Allen; Jr. '37, Richard A. Dow '35. Frank S. Deland '36, August H. Haffenreffer '38, William W. Pront '36. William N. Rothwell '37, Representing the army: John J. Maleney '36, Thomas C. Edmonds '36, Mark H. Dall '37, Richard S. Leering '37, William N. Dearborn...
...August 1867 a soldier came down with yellow fever. In a few days the fort was a raging pesthouse, isolated from the world. Gunboats were ordered away, ships were afraid to stop. When the fort physician died Dr. Mudd volunteered his services. Day & night in a hospital where the thermometer stood at 104 he worked heroically among delirious, vomiting patients. Men died by the score and were hastily dumped on nearby Bird Key. "No more respect is shown the dead," wrote Dr. Mudd, "than to the putrid remains of a dead...
...views of the current week. Results were disappointing, largely because in many cases library clips were mere flashes of persons and events. Then the editors decided to adapt The March of Time radio technique of re-enacting such scenes as were needed. First experimental dummy reel was completed last August, showing such subjects as the birth of the Dionne quintuplets, the death of Hindenburg, U. S. midshipmen cheering the Pope. Three more dummies were made, tested on cinema audiences by "sneak" previews. By October the editors had made two important discoveries...
...session will continue until August 14 and students completing the work satisfactorily will be eligible to enter the regular second-year course beginning in September...