Word: forte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Forgetful of the details of that North Russia campaign of the A. E. F., New York City paid the corpses brief homage. Fort Jay guns banged out a salute of 17 guns. Flags were half-staffed. In a pier baggage room in Hoboken was held a funeral service. Many a wreath was stacked around the coffins. Drums rolled. Rifles discharged thrice. Buglers blew "taps." There were no crowds, no major-generals, no Congressional committees...
South: Louisiana College v. Louisiana Tech at Pineville; North Carolina State v. South Carolina at Raleigh; Rice v. Baylor at Houston; Texas Christian v. Southern Methodist at Fort Worth...
...many years, water transportation will play a considerable part in bringing spectators to the Harvard-Yale game. The water taxi service of one marine company has already received reservations for its boats, and it will offer a complete service. The speedboats plan to receive their passengers on Fort Point channel, dash up into the Charles River Basin, and land the rooters right on the Stadium grounds...
Died. Jack L. Dempsey,* oldtime turf writer, chart maker for Daily Racing Form; at Dallas; of heart failure. The day he died he picked five out of six winners at Arlington Downs track (between Dallas & Fort Worth...
Lost & Found. The old steamer Fort St. James which the late Roald Amundsen used in the Arctic, is a Hudson Bay Company post in Cambridge Bay, Victoria Island. To its frozen remoteness eight bearded, twitching men tottered. Their leader, Col. C. D. H. McAlpine, only after being warmed and fed, explained that they were the Canadian exploring party who were lost with their two seaplanes two months ago in a snowstorm over Queen Maud Sea. Out of fuel, they alighted on the water and dragged their planes to shore. They did not know that they were only 40 miles from...