Word: fortes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...research and write Anthony Adverse, Author Allen (who now lives in the U.S.) has gone on plowing the past behind a strong but long-winded team of scholarship and storytelling. Toward the Morning is the third big volume in a pentalogy that began with The Forest and the Fort (TIME, April...
...Fort. On Roanoke Island, N.C., archeologists got closer to the unanswered riddle of the "Lost Colony." Results from excavations started over a year ago have convinced Jean C. ("Pinky") Harrington of the National Park Service that he has uncovered the outlines of Fort Raleigh built by Governor Ralph Lane in 1585. The radical shape of the fort (its bastions are on the sides, rather than the corners) is identical with another fort built by Governor Lane in Puerto Rico while en route to Roanoke...
...Fort Devens College was only meant to be a makeshift. It had been hastily put together in 1946 at a former Army post to handle Massachusetts veterans who couldn't get into other overcrowded colleges. In its heyday last fall it had an enrollment of 1,750' students. Last week, signalizing the decline of the G.I. boom, Fort Devens College gave notice that it would close up next spring for lack of students. Said Dean Wentworth Williams: "We are dying a natural death...
...cigar." The monster had taken off with the heaviest load ever lifted by an airplane (a gross weight of 300,000 Ibs.) and flown nonstop for 6,000 miles at more than 300 m.p.h. From San Diego, the ship went north to Seattle, back to San Diego, then to Fort Worth, north to Dayton and back to Fort Worth before it finally landed, more than 19 hours after its takeoff. It looked as if the transport version of the B-36, the XC-99, would have no trouble fulfilling Convair's promise to carry 400 passengers...
...efficiency had made him a full colonel; eight years later, he got his first major command: a Harlem National Guard regiment. In 1940, Franklin Roosevelt appointed him brigadier general, the U.S. Army's first and only Negro general officer, and he took over the 4th Cavalry Brigade at Fort Riley, Kans. He was sent to Europe in 1942, won the Distinguished Service Medal for his work in inspecting Negro troops and easing explosive Army racial tensions. After the war he settled into the routine of peacetime Army life...