Word: augustus
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...because things looked so bright for the tombstone trade, last week's convention talked little about business, a lot about art. Dealers and salesmen were driven to cemeteries, taken on a tour of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, shown tombstone art. Sculptors Robert Aitken, Harriet Frishmuth, Charles Keck, Augustus Lukeman and the Piccirilli Brothers lent pieces to the exhibition. And at the annual banquet, the chief address was de- livered by Bainbridge Colby. "I want to use this occasion," declared Woodrow Wilson's last Secretary of State, "to make an earnest plea for the revival of the epitaph...
...make his discovery, Dr. Wilson rigged up a perfusion pump analogous to the artificial heart which Charles Augustus Lindbergh designed for his admiring friend Dr. Alexis Carrel. To his pump Dr. Wilson hitched rabbit kidney after rabbit kidney, and through them perfused artificial blood composed of salt water, red corpuscles from beef blood and oxygen. Upon adding potassium cyanide, which displaces oxygen, Dr. Wilson through his microscope could see oxygen-starved mitochondria crumble while cells of the kidneys, and finally the entire kidneys died...
...bathroom of his Washington home, Secretary of the Navy Claude Augustus Swanson, 73, skidded, bumped broke...
Engel P. Hevenor '37, Paul R. Went-worth '39, Robert P. Brown '39, George Barker '38, John L. Chase '39, Roger Kinnicutt, Jr. '39, Irving M. Shepard '39, Augustus H. Fiske, Jr. '39. and William H. Felmeth...
...Trenton, Bruno Richard Hauptmann was last week granted a 30-day reprieve by New Jersey's Governor Harold Giles Hoffman. In effect the stay given by the portly young Republican will postpone for at least two months the execution of the alien carpenter for the murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh...