Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Major General James A. Woodruff, commanding officer of the First Corps Area, and by President Conant and the University Overseers' visiting committee to the Department of Military Science. The official inspection and report on the unit will be made by Lieutenant Colonel Oscar I. Gates, Seventh Field Artillery, Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont...
...parade of the unit will be held from 2:30 to 3:00 o'clock with music by the Fort Devens band. The demonstrations will begin immediately following...
...giant star clusters first found by the Blue Hills Observatory last spring have at last been identified, with great importance to astronomical research, Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the Blue Hills Observatory, revealed in Fort Davis, Texas, yesterday...
Then the Narcotics division announced some facts: Tom Pendergast's town traded in $12,000,000 worth of narcotics a year, served a vast territory. Most surprising fact: that healthy, husky Texas is a dopey State. Rated next to Kansas City as consuming centres were Galveston, Fort Worth, Dallas, Houston. Nor is this because of the Mexican population. Texas has oil. Prostitutes follow oil workers. Dope goes with prostitutes. Most Texas addicts are Anglo-Saxons, some are children...
...Hugh Glass, angriest man in U. S. history, who got so mad when his companions left him for dead that he chased them through 1,500 miles of wilderness to get even. Mauled by a grizzly, Glass was abandoned in South Dakota, crawled 100 miles to the nearest fort, set out for Montana for revenge before he could walk, survived two Indian attacks, got lost in Wyoming and nine months later caught the men who had left him in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Cooled off by then, he let them...