Word: forte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...local hero, Paolo Santamaria, whose body had been brought back from the former Italian battle front. This is said to have provoked the attack by the Fascisti. At Pontelagoscuro, near Ferrara. In the dead of a pitch black night a band of unknown persons tried to storm a fort containing thousands of tons of explosives. Rifle and revolver firing continued all night. The number of casualties was not reported. The military authorities are making investigations. At Mount Tricorno, on the Italo-Yugo-Slavian frontier. Shots were exchanged by Fascisti and Yugo-Slavian Nationalists without casualties resulting. Mount Tricorno...
...Admiral Sigsbee had many other titles to distinction. After his graduation from Annapolis in 1863, he fought with Damn-the-Torpedoes Farragut at Mobile Bay. The next year he engaged in the storming of Fort Fisher. Following the Civil War, at only 23, he was made a Lieutenant Commander, and in the years prior to 1898 took part in many activities?served with the Asiatic Squadron, taught at Annapolis, invented instruments for deep sea sounding, drew cartoons for the Daily Graphic of New York. At one time, in command of the Blake, he made a considerable stir. The vessel...
High lights at the osteopaths' convention: Cures were claimed 1) for hay fever, by Dr. T. L. Ray, of Fort Worth, Tex.; 2) for various types of insanity, including dementia praecox, through removal of circulatory and nerve defects, by Dr. A S. Hildreth, of Macon, Mo.; 3) for infected tonsils, through nonsurgical treatment, by Dr. Lucius Bush, of New York. A practical examination for every physician once in five years to keep him up with the times was advocated by Dr. C. J. Gaddis, of Chicago. Dr. W. A. Gravett, of Dayton, 0., was elected President...
...Indians of the Fort Berthold Agency, North Dakota, are passionately addicted to keeping dogs as pets. This is a problem that has for years distressed the Indian Bureau of the Department of the Interior. Grave cases have been reported to the Bureau of individuals who possess half a dozen dogs and hold on to them with a tenacity that no amount of moral, suasion can shake. Now it is announced that the braves of Fort Berthold Agency have decided to get along with two dogs per Indian, and to put, as well, a dollar tax on every dog within...
...Corps courses, the fact remains that intercollegiate polo has thereby become a practical reality. The shockingly expensive equipment and the esoteric training, heretofore exclusively associated with great wealth, are automatically available. War Department efforts since 1918 to make polo a recognized sport have culminated in an intercollegiate championship at Fort Hamilton, N. Y. The effect on American polo cannot be otherwise than beneficial...