Word: forte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hearing of these tests, Colonel William Mitchell, onetime Chief of the Army Air Service, now Eighth Corps Air officer at Fort Sam Houston, said to a reporter...
...feet long with eagle feathers, was christened "Great White Father No. 2" (at the same function, Governess Ross was made "Princess Nellie Taylor"). He entertained a banjo-accordion-saxophone-violin orchestra in his rooms, and later played the piano for them for an hour. He reviewed the troops at Fort D. A. Russell, lunched with Senator and Mrs. Warren...
...took the air again, bearing all six adventurers. A guard of honor of five planes flew with it up the bay to Oslo, circling away as the N25 described a triumphant arc and settled to the water offthe "honor pier." A navy cutter came alongside, battleships and Fort Akershus boomed salute, the populace of Oslo yelled and waved a welcome. Director Thormessen of the Norwegian Aero Club rushed forward, embraced each of the six fervently. There were speeches in a pavilion decked as for a returning Caesar with streaming flags and two gilt, victory-winged pylons; officials, including the Burgomaster...
Knud Rasmusscn, Danish Arctic explorer: "We all hope for the best. . . . There is especially the possibility of Amundsen going to Fort Conger or Cape Columbia, in which case nothing would be heard from him until the first mail from Thule [Antartica] about this time next year...
...Raleigh Fort Worth Asheville...