Word: augustus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From interesting Santa Fe, N. Mex.,* scampered Charles Augustus Lindbergh last week,† with a new nubble in the crown of his fame. Henceforth he must be considered the U. S.'s first flying archeologist, for the week before he initiated in the neighborhood of Santa Fe the first formal attempts of U. S. archeologists to locate digging sites by aerial photographs...
...Pittsburgh, the son of a bishop, a boy brought up in an orphanage. Rather stiffly they sat there in the hot sun, looking with awe at the judges who sat facing them solemnly, and who, by whispers, were soon identified as Thomas Alva Edison himself, Henry Ford, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Dr. Lewis Perry, headmaster of Philips Exeter, George Eastman, and Dr. Samuel Wesley Stratton, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...biology professor's lecture as if he were in a classroom. Most of the teachers attending the exhibit, which will remain open during August, were in Geneva for the Congress of the World Federation of Education Associations, begun six years ago in the U. S. by Dr. Augustus Orloff Thomas. State Superintendent of Public Schools in Maine and President of the Congress. While the aim of the Federation is to discuss the significant movements in education, this year it is being devoted especially to the promotion of peace through education. Prof. Gilbert Murray of Oxford. President of the League...
...tailstroke of what had smashed him up "a bit," smashed his family's fortunes. Instead of grubbing along or "going out" to the U. S. or Canada, he squared off at life, determined to develop his strongest talent. His chief teacher was Professor Henry Tonks, master of Augustus John and Sir William Orpen, at London's famed Slade School. When he considers himself perfected in portraiture, he proposes to settle down with his wife and daughter in Sussex and paint what most artists love best, landscapes...
Married. Dr. Joseph Augustus Blake, 65, famed U. S. surgeon; to a Miss Florence Drake, 24, nurse; in Toronto. Not until Dr. Blake confirmed this marriage was it known that he had been divorced in April by Mrs. Katherine Alexander Duer Blake, whose divorce in 1914 from Clarence Hungerford Mackay, president of Postal Telegraph Cable Co., was the domestic sensation...