Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arthur S. Biddle '48 of Claverly Hall, a 20-year-old College Junior from Chicago, emerged last night as the chief figure in a water rescue of three persons whose automobile had plunged through a bridge railing into the Fort Point Channel in back of South Station...
JOSEPH L. FLEMING Fort Sill, Okla...
...Leaning on a cane, hook-nosed Fernand de Brinon, former Vichy representative to German-occupied France, limped to an execution post at the Fort de Montrouge, outside Paris. A volley from the firing squad ended...
Shortly after the first explosion, Veteran Ham B. H. Standley (W5FQQ) of Houston rushed to the scene, set up his emergency unit and began transmitting messages. Samples: "Joe Vasquez not expected to live. Is in Room 323, St. Joseph's Infirmary [Houston]." "To Fort Crockett: send all available officer-type gas masks." "To Houston Boilermakers' Union: please send 50 bottles of oxygen and acetylene Texas City...
...year-old shortstop named Bernie Creger, for whom the Chicago Cubs would give a half-interest in Wrigley Field. Yet Creger had little chance to break into the Cardinals' crack lineup: to do that he would have to beat Marty ("Mr. Shortstop") Marion out of his job. At Fort Lauderdale, Fla., the up-&-coming Boston Braves were proud of bespectacled Earl Torgeson, who swings something like Ted Williams...