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Word: fortes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Taking his courage in both hands, Secretary Wallace last week set out to talk to wheat farmers at Hutchinson, Kans. and-cotton growers in Fort Worth, and promised to talk next week to corn farmers at Springfield, Ill. "Fight for the program that you have," he urged, then revealed what he thought should be done to AAA II to make it work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Ache, Agony, Anguish | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

...close if camp on August 6th found the following Harvard men at Fort Ethan Allen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TALES OF MIL. SCI., NAVAL R.O.T.C. CAMPS | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

Very auspicious circumstances surrounded the opening of the annual Harvard-Yale R.O.T.C. camp at Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont, on June 26th, for its fame had even penetrated to the golden shores of California, and the University of Santa Clara honored the camp with one of its sons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TALES OF MIL. SCI., NAVAL R.O.T.C. CAMPS | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

...first two weeks of camp were spent at the Post of Fort Ethan Allen, in order to prepare the men for the rigors of the life on the range where the "rabbits and the mosquitos play." The high point of this period of acclimatization was the annual R.O.T.C. "hop" --dance to you. That the men of Yale and Harvard are well versed in the "arts and sciences" of the social graces was well demonstrated by the demand for more dances...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TALES OF MIL. SCI., NAVAL R.O.T.C. CAMPS | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

...climax of the camp was the annual march to visit Fort Ticonderoga, an historical point of interest in this area. When the class of 1939, Harvard, gathers around its 25th re-union table, there will be men who will recall that memorable night in July when William Calfee '39 made a special study of the tactics of General Montcalm in the defense of the redoubts surrounding the Fort, and when Donald L. Daughters, '39, distinguished himself as official custodian of the few remaining mosquitos which insisted on spending a few early morning hours with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TALES OF MIL. SCI., NAVAL R.O.T.C. CAMPS | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

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