Word: augusts
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Professor Thaxter was born in Newton, August 28, 1858, and was the son of Levi L. and Celia (Laighton) Thaxter. He was graduated from Harvard with the degree of A.B. in 1882, and subsequently received his A.M. and Ph.D...
...forty-sixth session of the Summer Courses in the Harvard School of Physical Education will begin on July 6 and end August 16, 1932, it was announced yesterday. This period coincides with academic courses given in the regular Summer School...
...grandson of a tailor turned innkeeper. Educated in the arts, sciences and law, Goethe's poetical and practical career took imposing form in 1775, when, aged 26, he settled down in Weimar to spend the rest of his life at the court of his friend, Grand Duke Karl August. From then on as poet, statesman and a genius of widest interests 'Goethe permitted his personality to expand majestically. He crowned his career by writing Faust, a poem into which he poured a lifetime of erudition, inspiration and philosophy. If the German people have a "national poem" it is Faust...
...Professor V. S. Forbes of Cambridge University thinks that the moon is not dead & cold, that radioactive substances keep it warm. †This August's will be the last total solar eclipse visible from the U. S. until 1979. Observers in New England and southeastern Canada will see totality for 1.5 min. Maximum possible duration of a total solar eclipse is 7.5 min. During a total eclipse the moon's shadow slides across the earth at from 1,060 to 5,000 m. p. h., depending upon its distance from the Equator and the sun's position...
...august New York Times appeared the following contribution, translated by a wide-awake Times correspondent from the French of a Neuchatel (Switzerland) schoolboy...