Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cambridge sites. The negotiations paid off-200 families now live in the Jarvis Field and Business School developments-while 100 more will find lodging , though definitely not low-cost, in the recently acquired Brunswick Hotel. More than anything else, University Hall has counted on its allotment of facilities at Fort Devens to satisfy the demand at its pack next fall. But all of these projects combined can house but 900 families. The remaining 1600 applicants will form the ranks of Cambridge's own Displaced Persons, shuttling between boarding house and hotels until either patience or health gives...
...makes far better fiction than, say, the leaden soundings of James T. Farrell. It excels in fluent, natural descriptions of English country life (that peculiar combination of rigorous and relaxed living), in its feminine lightness, and in its sharp summings-up of occasional characters-such as prematurely balding Lord Fort William, whose "hair seemed to be slipping off backwards, like an eiderdown in the night," and Linda's newborn infant, which lay "deep down among the frills and lace . . . a howling orange in a fine black...
...Dogs. In Moultrie, Ga., Henry Fort sprinkled powder in his shoes, later discovered he had grabbed the can containing adhesive powder for false dentures...
From the time the Straus Hall housing office was set up in February this year to the announcement of the projected lease of an area at Fort Devens two weeks ago, the University has moved steadily, if not always quickly, towards an alleviation, there being no single solution, of the problem created by the un looked for influx of veterans, graduate and undergraduate, married and single, at the beginning of the fall term in September...
...climax to the University's drive came on May 24, when the Fort Devens deal was announced. By renting the land and reconverting existing structures built by the Army, it was hoped that upwards of 800 families could comfortably be taken care of at this so-called Harvard colony. Train service to and from the Devens-Ayer area was reported to be excellent, and arrangements to increase the service were made should the burden of student commuters prove too heavy. The availability of shopping centers, hospitals, and recreation facilities were all cited as advantages to this, the University's most...