Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Over Georgia's rutty red roads one August night 19 years ago, a man named B. B. ("Bunce") Napier drove an automobile in the back of which crouched a State prisoner about to be lynched. The prisoner was Leo Frank, young Brooklyn Jew who had gone to Atlanta to superintend a pencil factory. When 14-year-old Mary Phagan was found murdered in the plant, Frank, amid a popular uproar against Jews in general, was arrested, tried, convicted, sentenced to death. Governor John Marshall Slaton imperiled his own life by commuting Frank's sentence to life imprisonment...
...clock on the Divinity Courts. The Crimson squad will be led by S. Ellsworth Davenport, III '34, captain and a leading candidate for this year's Intercollegiate title. The other Harvard singles players will be John F. Ray '34, Frank W. Jones, Jr. '35, Franklin P. Whitbeck '35, August C. Helmholz '36, and G. G. Glidden '36. The Harvard doubles teams will be made up of Davenport and Ray, Justin J. Thackara '36 and Helmhoiz, and Jones and Whitbeck...
...Congressmen were too befuddled by the sight of him to laugh even at a Presidential pun. "For you younger members of both Houses-speaking from an experience of many years in Washington-I want to point out to you the advantages of the Washington climate in July and August. It rarely gets over 110° here-there is no humidity and I don't mind if I stay here all summer. . . . "I have come back with all sorts of new lessons which I learned from barracuda and sharks. I am a tough guy. So, if you will come down...
Year ago the Murray trustees completed plans for the John Murray Expedition. Last August the Mabahiss, 140-ft. trawler lent by the Egyptian Government, nosed out of an Alexandria dock, slipped through the Suez Canal, down the length of the Red Sea, finally emerged into the Indian Ocean. An echo-recording apparatus in the chartroom measured the time required for the sound to bounce back from the sea floor. With echo-sounding gear Expedition Leader R. B. Seymour Sewell and his staff systematically charted the ocean floor. In the Gulf of Aden they found ten ranges of theretofore unknown submarine...
...feet for landing gear, and a finlike tail attached to his stern. By blowing into a box on his chest, Pilot Kocher made the rotors revolve. The turning rotors created a suction ahead, into which Pilot Kocher & apparatus sailed gaily, while his excited friends trotted after him. The august New York Times, proud of its minute coverage of aviation, printed the picture in its rotogravure section under the momentous caption: A MAN FLIES ON HIS OWN POWER FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY. The tabloid New York Daily News, biggest circulation in the U. S., did likewise. So did Hearst...