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Word: fortes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fort Madison, Iowa, 23 members of the Iowa Legislature last week slept one night in cells of Iowa State Penitentiary, four of them in death row, for the "thrill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Refined Torture | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...April 18, six days after Beauregard fired on Fort Sumter, young Hay started a diary, hastily scrawled late at night, the most immature and most vivid writing he ever did. Much of the present selection was omitted from the privately printed edition of Hay's letters and diary published by his widow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lucky Diarist | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

Student Council awards went to Coleridge A. Braithwaite '39, of Cambridge, Mass.; Edgar L. Haff, Jr, '39, of Fort Edward, N.Y.; Leonard E. Leboeuf '39, of Webster, Mass.; Joseph S. Wyzan, of Milford, Mass.; Arthur R. Borden, Jr. '39, of Roslindale, Mass.; William E. Braden '41, of Toledo, O.; Harry R. Harwood, Jr. '39, of Springfield, Mass.; John H. Howland '39, of Windsor, Vt., Bernard Kalman '39, of Roxbury, Mass.; William H. Magruder '40, of Bethesda, Md.; Walter D. Riddle, Jr. '40, of Edgeworth, Pa.; and Holland L. Willard '40, of Brookline, Mass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWENTY-NINE AWARDS ANNOUNCED FOR STUDY | 2/8/1939 | See Source »

...Five nights before his 57th birthday, Franklin Roosevelt motored over to Fort Myer, Va. to a gala Army horseshow, proceeds of which (around $3,000) began this year's anti-infantile paralysis collection in his honor. With him he took Mrs. Roosevelt, horse-loving Harry Hopkins, and Madam Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, currently under fire in the House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Unusual Spot | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...Paulsen jump when the dimpled Norwegian girl joined Hollywood's stars and her twinkle toed maneuvers reached every movie house in the country. This year the skating craze is spinning in a dizzy whirl. Ice-skating rinks have spawned in such hitherto unheard of places as Miami, Houston, Fort Worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fine Figures | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

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