Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...English festivities, including the bringing in of the Yule log, the processional bearing of the boar's head, and the baron of beef, are being revived this Christmas and New Year's season at the Chateau Frontenac, on the site of the ancient Fort Saint Louis, in Quebec...
During the last two months, the field was thrown open to 8,951 candidates in 630 Federal examination rooms from Balboa Heights, C. Z., to Fort Kent, Me., from Ketchikan, Alaska, to Mayaguez, Puerto Rico...
...times this year General José Felix Estigarribia's little brown troopers tried to carry the Bolivian "Verdun," Fort Ballivian, by assault. Six times they failed. Last July Estigarribia moved ostentatiously away to the north and made a great display of advancing on that front. At that point Bolivia blundered...
...already lost one son in the War, wanted to elect a Genuine Republican successor and keep the war going. He was faced with the worst kind of campaign material: news of the great Paraguayan victories on the northern front. Since he had assured his countrymen again & again that Fort Ballivian was "impregnable," he ordered his generals to take most of their troops out of Ballivian and run a rousing counteroffensive in the north. In a blaze of Bolivian victories last month, Salamanca's candidate for President, Franz Tamayo, was elected...
Hardly had the Bolivian ballots been counted when the hosts of Paraguay suddenly reappeared before "impregnable" Fort Ballivian. This time they took it without trouble, along with 10,000 Bolivians and $3,000,000 worth of ammunition. This week they are slamming ahead through the Chaco, only 60 mi. from Bolivia proper...