Word: forte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were not more precious than the gold in the ground at Fort Knox, one could wish heartily that Wheat Farmer Campbell's wheat [TIME, Nov. 17] would rot where it lies on his farms. No more damning indictment of uncontrolled capitalism can be imagined than the vicious economics of Farmer Campbell. Another way to get farmers to sell, besides that advocated by Campbell, would be to stop subsidizing them and thus force them to sell their goods for what a free and open market will bring...
...Indian war of 1761 as the setting of "Unconquered" and has duly costumed hundreds of extras as colonials. British redcoats, and painted aborigines. Fearless colonial Gary Cooper twice frees beautiful bondslave Paulette Goddard from lecherous Howard Da Silva, then from the torture stake of Boris Karloff, and finally saves Fort Pitt single-handed from a horde of howling savages...
...tumbled from a 300-ft. cliff and caught himself 20 feet from the top. A private was thrown from his horse almost atop a grizzly, hit it over the head with his rifle butt and escaped. Their escapes were even narrower than they knew. They built their blockhouse at Fort Mandan, some 1,100 miles up the Missouri, just before the Sioux held a war council. After they crossed the Rockies and were resting, exhausted, before descending the Pacific slope, the Nez Perce Indians decided to wipe them out. The Nez Perces were dissuaded (according to tribal tradition...
...cost apartments, brimming Federal projects and the greatest enrollment in college history all combined to produce a large group of homeless and dissatisfied married veterans. In an effort to cope with this situation the Harvard Housing Trust instituted a strict priority system that temporarily placed veterans cut at Fort Devens or at the Hotel Branswick and gradually drew them into preferred quarters near the College. Ostensibly an inflexible program of unbiased seniority, this system was speedily replaced by a super priority list that allowed non-veteran faculty members to obtain an A-1 classification and receive prompt housing while...
...housing. One visiting professor placed an application with the Harvard Housing Trust a year prior to his arrival in Cambridge. Classified A-1, the next vacancy was set aside for him and held until he took up residence here this fall. At the present time 525 students living at Fort Devens and in the Hotel Brunswick hold seniority over him, but stand little chance of moving into Jarvis or Andover Courts. The University knows the arrival date of new staff members well in advance and if it feels bound to provide housing for essential faculty, they should be given apartments...