Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, prompted by Tuskegee Institute's Robert Russa Moton, the foremost newspaper in the land, august New York Times, announced that it would make the typographical change from n to N "as an act in recognition of racial self-respect for those who have been for generations in 'the lower case...
Compared to Mary the late great Victoria was a spendthrift. The present Queen Empress is the most economical housekeeper Buckingham Palace has ever had. She has cut the twelve-course Royal dinners which were standard before the War down to five courses. When that august Court functionary Sir Derek Keppel at first protested, Her Majesty said lightly but inflexibly...
...August Heckscher, Manhattan capitalist, charitarian, planned to make St. Augustine (oldest U. S. city) and St. Johns County, Fla., one place "in which there would be no poverty, no preventable suffering, no unattended medical cases and no avoidable diseases." As a starter, he gave the Florida Normal & Industrial Institute (coeducational Negro school) a gymnasium, a cinder track, a swimming pool...
...Idea of this corporation is ... give the sneezer a chance . . . won't admit members except in August . . . look at them and tell ... if they have hayfever. If they haven...
Hanks was formerly in the Department of State Washington, has been an airplane pilot since August, 1916, and served as aide to the chief signal officer of the Army during the World War. He is a lieutenant colonel in the Air Corps Reserve and the author of "International Airports...