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...China had been exporting the finished product to Europe for two centuries before an alchemist named Johann Friedrich Böttger, a protege of Augustus the Strong of Saxony, succeeded in cracking the secret of porcelain making in 1709. His success made it possible for Augustus, an avid collector of the Chinese article, to manufacture...
Fifty years ago, in the days of bloomers and tin bath tube, Radcliffe cheered the addition of a permanent brick gymnasium to the cluster of building up Garden Street. Mrs. Augustus Hemenway, wife of the donor of the University's Hemenway gymnasium dedicated the now structure in June...
...election held recently Augustus L. Putnam '49, head of the Harvard Yacht Club, was made president of the intercollegiate Yacht Racing Association. The group runs and sponsors races during the spring, summer...
...ruled that the word is in order," snapped Bustamante, glowering at the member from East Westmoreland. "There is only one twisted person here. You. Goodbye." As he strode from the chamber, he called on his party's eight representatives to follow him. All except Education Minister Jehoida Augustus McPherson...
...Augustus John painted her portrait. It stole the show one year at the Royal Academy and now hangs opposite her bed in Windows, where it is the first thing she sees when she wakes up. In 1932, she turned down...