Word: mid-august
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Among the great days that mark a British sportsman's calendar-"Derby Day," "The Grand National," "Gold Cup Day," "Boat Race Day"-none is more important than "The Twelfth." By law and tradition mid-August is the time set apart for the shooting of the game red grouse. To celebrate "The Twelfth" last week, brokers, brewers, baronets and belted Earls set off with some sixteen pieces of luggage each to join fashionable grouseparties on Scotch moors...
...through an International Bank of Settle-ment (TIME, March 25, et seq.). Politicians representing Germany and the Creditor Powers must now accept or reject the tycoons' advice. Last week, after a month of spirited bickering among European chancellories, it was decided to hold a "Political Reparations Conference" in mid-August at The Hague. The immaculate, aristocratic capital of Queen Wilhelmina's tidy Netherlands would provide, it was felt, an ideally placid atmosphere. Brussels, although favored in London and Paris as the seat for the conference, was ruled out after strenuous protests were received from Berlin. The Germans claimed...
...barrels. But the higher prices for crude at once stimulated higher production. For the week ending Aug. 16, output for the country was 2,029,650 barrels- an increase of 19,000 barrels over the preceding week, and only about 235,000 barrels behind the smashing production of mid-August...
...much is known about these "Alligators" from Gainesville. They are big and advance reports have it that they play clean, hard football. How they will take to a New England November after playing a game last Saturday in mid-August weather is a matter of conjecture. Their mascot, a 'gator in fact as well as in name, found it hard sledding at the Stadium yesterday in spite of his blue and gold sweater...
...feed." With every shipyard and every farm calling for men, his duty to work is imperative. Of the three months and more of vacation ten weeks should be the minimum which he should give. Nor should those who attend the July Camp feel that their duties are over in mid-August; the fate of next year's food supply will be decided during those later weeks when the crops are harvested...