Word: august
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Japan silkworms breed twice a year (April-May & July-August), in most other countrie-where they are raised, only once. In parts cf India and China breeding is almost continuous, but quality of the silk degenerates as hatchings increase...
...banknotes, to be used in charitable distribution. Even Dictator Mussolini has not made many Italian banknotes clean. The Cardinal was not surprised when Commendatore Jorio asked him to leave the check (already endorsed) overnight, until the fresh bills required could be scrambled for and sorted out. Hastily, when the august robed figure of His Eminence was gone, godless Spider Jorio cashed the check into dirtiest tainted money, cashed two much larger checks also fraudulently obtained for a total of 461,534 lira, skittered...
...Induction evening there was a huge banquet at the Palmer House. The students had no classes Induction Day, but the faculty were at their posts. Visitors were taken through classrooms, laboratories, clinics; were allowed to poke into the University press, oldest (1892) U. S. college printshop; saw Police-Professor August Vollmer's sphygmanometer (lie detector) in the Social Science Building (TIME, May 27). In the Haskell Museum, housing the Oriental Institute's work, upon which much Chicago money is lavished, was exhibited the archaeological reseasch of Professor James Henry Breasted, whose red-bound ancient history many a school must study...
...financiers are, who the builders, was kept secret. That it was a bona fide project Harry Westcott of Westcott & Mapes, Inc., New Haven and Manhattan engineering firm, testified immediately after Governor John H. Trumbull of Connecticut had predicted such a ship at a dinner of New Haven's august Union League Club. Westcott & Mapes are now estimating their bids on the structural work of not one, but two such planes. The builders expect that the first will be wrecked by the ineptitude of navigators with such a mighty machine. The lessons they learn in wrecking the first plane they...
Editor Weitzenkorn was full of hope when he took the editorship of the Graphic last August. Said he then: "The Graphic unquestionably got off to a bad start. Its tone has been a low voice. Its policy was a 'chemise' policy. So far as Mr. Macfadden is concerned he agrees with me that the Graphic must and will be made into a high class newspaper. . . . The tone . . . will unquestionably have to be raised. I have found the people of New York City have a lot more intelligence than they are given credit for. . . . What I want...