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Word: fortes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dallas and Fort Worth are only 30 miles apart-almost as close, one might say, as two tomcats in a shoe box-and this proximity has bred in citizens of both cities a splendid sense of mutual distrust. Nevertheless, back in 1941 when it became evident that the airports of both towns were getting outmoded, they joined forces to plan a huge, jointly owned field midway between the two cities. Then Dallas representatives made a horrible discovery: the field entrance was to be a mile and a half closer to Fort Worth than to Dallas. They walked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Air War | 2/9/1953 | See Source »

CELTICS LOSE TO FORT WAYBE...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: National Sports | 1/30/1953 | See Source »

...fort Wayne Pistons pumped in pumped points in the last quarter to beat the Celtics in a game played at Fort Wayne last night

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: National Sports | 1/30/1953 | See Source »

Literally. In Fort Worth, thieves took $114 from the office of the Jacksboro Drive-In Theater, where the feature show ing was Everything I Have is Yours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 26, 1953 | 1/26/1953 | See Source »

...beginning of Mamie's real education - and of a rambling, catch-as-catch-can existence which only an Army wife who remembers the appropriations drought between the two world wars could really appreciate. The cubbyhole at Fort Sam was only the first of some 20 different quarters which Mamie has occupied in the decades since; she learned to clean, decorate, move out; to clean and decorate again; to pay bills and dress on Army pay ; and to catch yet another train...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAPITAL: The President's Lady | 1/19/1953 | See Source »

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