Word: cortese
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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* But not, by a long shot, the first in North America: Cortes founded one in Mexico in 1524.
Hole in the Bucket. When he was eleven, his father died of tuberculosis, leaving the family penniless. His mother brought Robert and his sister (two years younger) back to New England. Grandfather Frost, an overseer in a Lawrence, Mass, woolen mill, received them without enthusiasm. "We were the hole in...