Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under a blazing August sun, hundreds of Ukraine officials and thousands of grimy Soviet citizens stood on the banks of the Dnieper one day last week and listened to oratory. The occasion was the official opening of the largest hydroelectric plant in the world: Dnieprostroy, built in five years at a cost of $110,000,000. Oratory was not the only thing turned on. Already in action were five of the nine great turbogenerators that will eventually produce 800,000 h.p. Water raised by the great concrete wall will make the Dnieper navigable up nearly...
...Dixie Highway and the National Road, two chalklines drawn across the smooth slate of Ohio, meet ten miles north of Dayton at a village called Vandalia. At Vandalia are the $100,000 grounds of the Amateur* Trapshooting Association of America, where, late every August, with eleven freight carloads of clay targets (made of sand and plaster of Paris) and $32,000 worth of shotgun shells, are held the most important trapshooting events in America. The Vandalia firing line is nearly a mile long. Shooters fire in squads of five over 27 traps, each manned by a corps of trap loaders...
...Their minds behind weirdly painted faces were intent on a thing savage, religious and remote. Their eyes were upon the parched earth to which they must bring rain. Ceremony- Throughout the dry Arizona summer Hopi medicine men keep one eye on the ground, the other on the sky. In August when the corn and melon vines begin to wither, the Hopi whisper that "the little ones" are angry. Then one day the medicine men set a date for the rain-bringing ritual. On the door of the main kiva (underground chamber) a priest posts a nacti (two eagle feathers tied...
...TIME, August 8. says of Socialist Candidate Norman M. Thomas. "The New York Port Authority is his governmental ideal...
Next week California Democrats will hold a hot primary to nominate a Senator. Franklin Delano Roosevelt will be nowhere in sight. Recalling the Hughes campaign incident as a horrible example of political mismanagement, this year's Democratic presidential nominee rejected all requests to open his canvass in California during August. He refused to jeopardize his middling good chance to carry the State by becoming embroiled in a local contest. From Albany last week he announced that he would stump California?but not until late September when the primary is but a memory...