Word: forte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...possible case of mononucleosis, often regard it as a mild infection. It is frequently more than that, says Colonel Robert J. Hoagland, who began studying mono in 1946 when he was medical officer at West Point (where, as at most colleges, the disease is common) and has continued at Fort Benning, Ga., since his transfer there...
...Fort Miller...
...winds of combat blew, to live under fire, to endure the privation, hardship and danger of the campaign for months on end, and to send to the illustrated newspapers that employed them rough and hasty sketches whose chief purpose was to cue the wood engraver back home. From Fort Sumter to Appomattox-at Bull Run, Shiloh, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge and the Wilderness-they recorded the bloody course of the conflict with a vitality that has earned them a unique and permanent place in the annals of the press...
...asked about, or collected facts about-vacuum jars, the "humors" produced by yellow fever, machines for producing static electricity (fatal to some rats), systems of government and ventilation, the geology of Pennsylvania, the weather, the making of glass, the weaving of cloth, and the proper way to build a fort. When he was not advertising muskets for sale he was procuring them for his Pennsylvania militia, drawing up the order of companies and ordering maneuvers on the next fair day after rain...
Then came two years in the service, including 16 months in Korea. While Cuffe was in training at Fort Devens, he came to Cambridge several times, and "decided it was better than Holy Cross." When he was mustered out, he took exams to transfer to Harvard, and was one of 12 successful applicants...