Word: augustus
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...coalpits scarcely miss a shift. Lan-arkshire iron and metal works roar 24 hours a day. While vast schemes are going forward for converting to agriculture more of the one-sixth of Scotland that is locked up in huge, private hunting preserves, Benedictine monks at Fort Augustus have hiked up their habits and converted ten acres of monastery land into a victory garden. From low-ceilinged island cottages comes the never-ending keening of Heb-riden women mourning their men lost...
Hemenway, Augustus Lawrence...
...Charles Augustus Lindbergh turned up at his new job at Ford's Willow Run plant, wearing "Victory model" trousers (sans cuffs), posed with his boss for photographers...
...lank, lonely, youngish man last week found a job, and a good one. Washington at war had scant time and no consideration for Charles Augustus Lindbergh as he shouldered his solitary way through hotels packed with scurrying Government clerks, hurrying businessmen...
...they poured into the nation's 6,500 draft boards-smooth-faced young men, greying middling-agers. Many a father, scarred by World War I, signed up alongside his son. Waiting their turn in line were: a Supreme Court associate justice (William O. Douglas), an ex-hero (Charles Augustus Lindbergh), a college president (Robert M. Hutchins of the University of Chicago). Aliens registered too: Chinese with Japanese; Austrians, Spaniards, Arabians, Hindus, Javanese. The draft boards had to have on hand specialists to translate Chinese birthdays like K.S. 23, 1, 16 (16th day, 1st month, 23rd year of the Kuang...