Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...both sides of Nanking. One field army under General Chen Keng took Tikang, 80 miles southwest and upriver from the Nationalist capital. Other forces under General Chen Yi poured across 35 and 65 miles east and downriver from Nanking, snatched the river port of Chinkiang and the river fort at Kiangyin, whose big guns were silent...
...does not feel at home in La Fortaleza, the government palace which the 16th Century Spaniards intended to be a fort. "La Fortaleza," he says, "is beautiful, but it's not really a place to live or work in. It's for an old Spanish governor, writing a letter to the king-with a quill pen." He prefers Jajome, the Governor's summer residence in the hills north of Ponce, or his own rented ($52 a month) cottage at Sabana liana, twelve miles outside San Juan...
Some big news came out last week from the American Association for Cancer Research, meeting in Detroit's Hotel Fort Shelby. If the news proved to be as good as it looked, cancer fighters were in possession of something they have long been looking for: a blood test, almost as simple as the Wassermann, which could divide people into two groups-those who may have cancer, and those...
Sample. At Fort Knox, Ky., officials received a letter from a Floral Park (N.Y.) writer: "Gentlemen: Please send me a gold brick and some material on Ft. Knox...
Look Away, Look Away ... In Fort Worth, after a state industrial accident board awarded Norman L. Daugherty compensation when a Yankee socked him in the eye for whistling Dixie, the insurance company appealed on the ground that it was no accident but a continuation of the War Between the States...