Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...father, Thomas Alva Edison, will remain at his rubber experiments in Fort Myers, Fla., for the actual anniversary does not come until Oct. 21 and there are many things which Mr. Edison, aged 82, wants to crowd into his remaining years...
From snow-clogged central Manitoba last week went out the account of what an epidemic may mean to an isolated community. In early May typhoid fever appeared at Fort Churchill on Hudson Bay. The nearest hospital was 183 miles away at The Pas. A few patients got through the blizzard. Twelve, on a train, with three score nurses, physicians and railway employes, were snowed in. Three locomotives could not pull them free. Food grew low. Snow was melted for drink. Engine fires were killed to save fuel. Telephone poles were chopped down for more heat. After days a dog team...
Newspaper readers remarked last week the nearly simultaneous announcements of a "Genius School" at Johns Hopkins University and a "Genius Hunt'' at the Edison laboratories in West Orange, N. J. Mr. Edison, who is in Fort Myer, Fla., and has often been called a genius, did not deny that genius was what he was hunting. But from Johns Hopkins went a protest to the press: "Please note that we have not used the word 'genius' once in our plan. We would appreciate it if you would avoid the use of this word, since it is likely...
...with the Lindenthal vision, patient Mr. Lindenthal put a definite location (West 57th , Street) to his bridge, drew plans, estimated expenditures. But the City Fathers had other ideas, and when at last a Hudson River bridge was actually begun, it was the now-building structure from 178th Street to Fort Lee. Ironic, to Mr. Lindenthal, must be the sight of the Fort Lee towers, of his dream transplanted and its fulfilment in other hands...
...Thomas Alva Edison headed the staff appointed last week by the Fort Myers, Fla., Women's Community Club to publish an issue of the Tropical News. She wrote editorials: extolled Adolph Simon Ochs (New York Times), flayed handshaking as too hard on President Hoover, attacked billboards. Robert Cedric Sherriff, London insurance broker, amateur playwright of super-successful Journey's End (TIME, April 1), announced last week he was writing a play about the antarctic death (1912) of Explorer Robert Falcon Scott...