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Word: fortunat (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1951-1951
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Last week a long awaited improvement was under way at Ste. Cunegonde's. Workmen with acetylene torches were installing a new elevator. The old folks, who daily shuffled up four flights of stairs to their fifth-floor quarters, were overjoyed. Only Fortunat Taillefer, 70, who once had been a welder's helper, fretted about the acetylene torches blazing away so close to the tinderlike stairwell and the old wooden floors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Disaster in Montreal | 6/25/1951 | See Source »

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