Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shore road along which the legions marched toward Spain. Like a great stone wedding cake, the Trophy of the Alps rose 150 ft., topped by a stone Augustus. With the centuries the Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Vandals and Huns tore the great pile apart. Later still it was converted into a fort. Louis XIV, who disliked other men's monuments, had it blown up. Seven years ago another man who also liked monuments began to put it together again...
...vicious little Gran Chaco war between Bolivia & Paraguay last week reached its Gettysburg. Under French-trained General Estigarribia the Paraguayans, born short-end fighters, had harried the Bolivians northwestward across the jungle to the Pilcomayo River, backed them up against their last Chaco stronghold, Fort Ballivian. The Paraguayans planned to take Ballivian and stop. They found the Bolivians entrenched in open hayfields, for the first time in the war. General Estigarribia's artillery bombarded the trenches for two days. On the second the first wave of Paraguayans stumbled out into the hayfields in a close formation bayonet charge...
...achieve those excesses which are the essence of vulgarity." Author Huxley speaks for the majority of travelers and intelligentsia when he confesses: "Frankly, try how I may, I cannot very much like primitive people. They make me feel uncomfortable. 'La bêtise n'est pas mon fort...
...Francisco via Cleveland, Chicago, Omaha, Cheyenne, Salt Lake City. Other major routes flown by United and for which new contracts are to be let include the West Coast run from Seattle to San Diego, the Salt Lake City-Spokane "feeder" line and an important route from Chicago to Fort Worth via Kansas City. Only old United route not to get a new con tract is the Tulsa-Watertown feeder line
...only one to have all its old contract routes included in the new setup. American Airways' southern transcontinental route extends from Newark to Los Angeles by way of Buffalo, Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati. Louisville, Nashville. Memphis, Little Rock, Dallas, Fort Worth, El Paso. Of the former mail routes operated by independents, new contracts will be awarded between Salt Lake City and Great Falls, Detroit and Milwaukee, Washington and Cleveland. Among independents hoping for a piece of the new airmail subsidy is the Boston-Maine Airways operated by Paul Collins and Amelia Earhart, who want the Boston-New York mail contract...