Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...offer did it go to a man. Nonetheless Dr. Woolley stands on record as desiring a woman, any woman, in preference to a competent man. Such opposition before he takes office must be acutely embarrassing to Dr. Ham. In reality by breaking the century old tradition of its greatest fort the shows that the feminist movement has come of age. When men and women can easily replace each other in office, the latter have won their equality. Dr. Wooley's attitude sorely hurts her own cause, for not only does she act in an unsportsmanlike way, but she tells...
...northernmost point at which I have seen it growing is just outside Jacksonville, Fla. and that is, 1 believe, at a Government experimental garden. Is there a different variety native to cold climates? Otherwise, how does this animal find bamboo in its native habitat? D. C. MARSHALL Forty Fort...
When his favorite dog, Snowball, died in 1929, George H. Slappey of Fort Valley, Ga. summoned his friends from far & wide for the Spitz's funeral. Four years later, still grieving, he sat down and wrote a will setting aside the residue of his estate after bequests to relatives for a "Snowball Dog Hospital'' in Macon. Friends tried to persuade him to make it a children's hospital instead, but Dog-lover Slappey said: ''There's always someone who will take care of children. Nobody takes care of sick and injured dogs unless...
Once inside the $560,000 building, each $14,000 brick became the direct responsibility of amiable Russell John Van Home, 45-year-old Mint employe who had spent 21 years in the San Francisco Assay Office when he was sent to the Fort Knox depository last July and given the title of Chief Clerk in Charge. Chief Clerk Van Home's gold is about as safe as human ingenuity can make it. The gold storage vault is a massive box 40 ft. by 60 ft., with top and sides of 25-in. steel and concrete. It rests on bedrock...
...special arrived at Fort Knox about dawn. It was met by Brigadier General Daniel Van Voorhis, Fort Knox commandant, and a motorized unit of the Seventh U. S. Cavalry brigade. After concealing canopies were put up at the doors of the baggage cars, long Army trucks backed up to the spur track to be loaded with the 400-troy-oz. bricks. As each truck was loaded it was convoyed by two of the Seventh Cavalry's combat cars on its brief trip to the squat depository building. Few days later the process was repeated...