Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...During the staging of one more sham battle in his honor, Amir Amanullah watched with round, startled eyes while a 38-ton tank lumberingly butted and crushed down the brick walls of a model fort. Turning away his head, as though in revulsion, His Majesty declared "How unromantic and terrifying is Western warfare...
...following persons and institutions are in favor of Herbert Clark Hoover's nomination: Senators Moses, Gillett, Jones, Shortridge, Edge; Representatives Burton, Fort, Albert Johnson, A. T. Smith; Amelita Galli-Curci, Christopher Morley, Emil Fuchs, Henry Ford, Thomas Alva Edison, Emory R. Buckener, George W. Wickersham, Louis Marshall, Elihu Root Jr., George Eastman; Michael Idvorsky Pupin, Will H. Hays; Secretaries Work, Wilbur, Jardine; Postmaster-General New; Assistant Secretaries Mills, Robinson, Brown; Governors Fuller of Massachusetts, Spaulding of New Hampshire, Green of Michigan, Brewster of Maine; the Hearst...
...suppose that Candidate Hoover was beckoned, pushed, coaxed or ordered into Indiana by Republican newspapers or by his own disapproval of the Watson regime, would, however, be foolish. More and more a political technologist, he did not enter Indiana until convinced by Publisher Oscar G. Foellinger of the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel that there really was a chance of winning 17 or more Indiana delegates from Senator Watson. The Indiana primary law provides that whosoever wins a majority of the delegates, wins all, and Indiana's delegates total...
...another expedition Frémont saw the Oregon Trail as busy as a barnyard in mating season, crossed the snow-deep Sierras in midwinter, visited Captain Suiter's fort in the fertile Sacramento valley. Ideas of manifest destiny were firmly planted in Frémont's head. So, on his next trip to California, he began to write history instead of geography. Mexican General Castro ordered him out of California. He went up to Oregon and waited for an excuse to raise the U. S. flag over California. An Indian attack gave it to him. Quickly he assembled...
Second, for London: U. S. loans to Australia help sterling to maintain itself at par, for when dollars flow outward towards the Antipodes gold sovereigns may hold the fort in London City...