Word: fortuna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Social Studies class in San Jose took up the topic of elections. The students, reading about the low numbers of registered voters in their town, went out, rang doorbells, and played a part in increasing the registrations for the November 1948 elections by 4,000. An English class in Fortuna. fascinated by the building of a new dam in their county, interviewed engineers, studied blueprints, took pictures, and wrote and sold a magazine article on their experience. In San Diego, a science teacher said...
...Fortuna, Calif...
According to one necessarily anonymous speculator yesterday, "such gentry only reflect discredit on the initiated members of the profession. They are not taking what we patrons of the Goddess Fortuna are went to describe as a sporting chance...
Last week many Old Harrovians fondly grunted Harrow's Stet Fortuna Domus as they leafed through just the kind of book that Old Harrovians like. Put together by other Old Harrovians, bound in deep Harrovian blue, it was called Winston Churchill and Harrow, Memories of the Prime Minister's Schooldays...
...that he has been told that often "on occasions when affairs looked overblack, Mr. Churchill . . . would sing an appropriate verse or two from one of the [Harrow] songs and then get back to business." Recently the Harrovians have given Old Harrovian Churchill a new stanza to the old Stet Fortuna Domus to sing if he wishes...