Word: forte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont was the scene last summer of the annual six weeks' encampment of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps unit. Harvard and Yale men united to form a battery of field artillery under the command of Major A. V. Arnold of Yale...
...first four weeks of training were spent at the fort where the men learned the practical application of the theories learned in military science courses, and also had daily practice in equitation and maneuvers limbered and unlimbered. The unit was attached for training purposes to Battery C of the Seventh Field Artillery, a regular unit under the command of Captain Brigham...
...Issoul, a blockhouse which was one of the French outposts at the edge of the fighting, the Riffs entrenched so close to the fort that the French artillery dared not fire for fear of hitting their own men. Nonetheless, the Riffs mounted and captured 75 in the open not far away, and one lone white-robed man proceeded to load and fire it pointblank at the blockhouse. He fired eight times and made eight hits. French guns replied and drove him to hitch several mules to his gun and haul it behind a hill...
...West, as everyone knows, there is no "organized" baseball. But the towns of Fort Bayard (New Mexico), El Paso (Texas), Juarez (Mexico) and Douglas (Ariz.) have teams which play in the Frontier League., Last year Chase went to Douglas, played on the team. The local Chambermen of Commerce told him to get better players and offered to ' pay for them. He sent for Weaver and Gandil. The Chambermen began to pay out $10,000 a month; the three unfrocked players began to win games for Douglas. Chase plays center field; Gandal is at first; Weaver at shortstop is the best...
Montgomery Ward serves 7,000,000 families from seven stores in Chicago (home store), Baltimore, Kansas City, Fort Worth, St. Paul, Portland, Oakland. (Sears Reobuck serves 9,000,000 families). Orders are filled within 48 hours...