Word: forte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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People who regard science with suspicion have always celebrated such familiar, explainable events as "mysteries" or "miracles." Charles Fort, who died in 1932, made a career of it. For 26 years Fort puttered in the British Museum and the New York Public Library, collecting phenomena which "science cannot explain" (he had a special fondness for unusual objects falling from the sky). He insisted that the earth was surrounded by a gelatinous shell, in which the stars were holes. Rains of fish, frogs and "blood" (water containing reddish dust particles) were brought down to earth from the shell by "teleportation...
Private Enterprise. In Fort Myers, Fla., Walter N. Ash explained why he had stolen a $2 steak: he was going into the restaurant business...
Norbert Berghoff of Fort Wayne, Ind., the passenger who had spotted him, became the Santa Clara's hero. To the end of his born days, Berghoff would be considered a man with eyes like an eagle...
Shopworn. At Fort Sam Houston, Tex., the Army advertised for sale ten surplus human skeletons, "male, adult (parts value only...
...afternoon games, the Jayvees picked up where the Varsity left off in downing Fort Devens 8 to 3, while the Freshmen slaughtered Andover...