Word: augustine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...According to Chemicals in War (TIME, March 8, 1937), by Lieut. Colonel Augustin M. Prentiss - generally considered the most thorough treatise on gas warfare, past and future, in English...
...They laughed at her. Privately they called her "the little beast." Even William liked to regale her with his old love affairs. Soon Caroline had a lover, Sir Godfrey Webster, coarse, handsome and ostracized. But Sir Godfrey called it off at the time a new waltz, Ach du lieber Augustin, was sweeping England and a jam of carriages was bearing invitations to the door of a young Lord who had just published a book called Childe Harold...
Last week Rochester held its ninth Annual Festival of American Music. At festival's end patient Rochesterians had sat through so many new U. S. compositions, that they would have clutched 0 Sole Mio or Ach Du Lieber Augustin like a drowning man. Most-talked-about item of the series: a symphony by a 20-year-old post graduate Eastman student named Owen Reed. Some critics found Reed's brief, concise opus somewhat monotonous. Not so Director Hanson, who spoke of it with exuberant breath: "Comparison of Reed's work with Beethoven's can be made...
...mountains did not fall without a struggle. Czech soldiers in Carpatho-Ukraine, having learned that Bohemia was a German province, bee-lined for the Rumanian border, where they surrendered their arms and were interned. But the Ukrainian Nationalist Guards of Carpatho-Ukraine, armed at the last minute by Premier Augustin Volosin, long a Ukrainian nationalist leader, put up a stiff resistance. There was a pitched battle to take Chust, the capital. It took Hungary a full four days to occupy the territory, in contrast to the mere eight or ten hours it took the Germans to seize
Coming Crisis. This week Father Augustin Volosin, Premier of Carpatho-Ukraine said in Prague: "Of course we Ukrainians feel that a nation like ours . . . must some day . . . form its own State,but . . . Carpatho-Ukraine cannot work for the creation of a Great Ukraine. Our little country is far too small...