Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...asking too much of your Circulation Department to send the magazine to me care of the Bankers Trust Company, Paris, with the issue commencing a week before July 1 until the middle of August? This is perhaps the only way I can keep up with events in America while I am abroad. I get my regular issues here...
...assumption his Cabinet members have been busily planning how and when to get out of Washington. First to announce his vacation plans last week was Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson. Late this month he will sail for two months in Europe, visiting Italy, France, Germany and Britain. In August he will go to Scotland to shoot some grouse. The fact that he will meet Europeans en route and discuss current diplomatic questions with them exalted his trip in press speculation almost to a mission...
...second unit, the Harvard Vagabonds, directed by H. N. Roberts '31, is to sail August 11, on the French liner Lafayette, planning to return on the same vessel, after an interval of ten days. During the intervening period the quintet will play in Paris...
When war with Spain was declared (April, 1898), Surgeon General Sternberg had already arranged to appoint women as army nurses serving under contract with the government. Selection of these nurses was put in my hands, and in August when about 1,000 women had entered the service, I was placed on duty directly under him as Superintendent of the Army Nurse Corps, the organization of which began at once. Before the end of '98, members of the Corps had done the nursing at the several hospitals of each of our big camps-Montauk, Chickamauga and Jacksonville, at 31 other...
...Maria Mitchell Observatory at Nantucket, discussed the present state of knowledge concerning the major planet Pluto and the asteroid Eros, both of which have been closely studied of recent months. Professor Frederick Slocum, of Wesleyan University, followed with a talk-on the next New England major eclipse, predicted for August 31, 1932, indicated the eclipse weather prospects and probable meteoric conditions...