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[fawr-chuhn] / ˈfɔr tʃən /




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FORTUNE, the saying goes, favors the bold, and so it seems does Madison Avenue.

From New York Times • Dec. 4, 2014

When President Hoover declared that nobody had actually starved to death in the worsening Depression, MacLeish wrote an impassioned refutation in FORTUNE, where he was a founding writer.

From Time Magazine Archive

The five-day-a-week paper remains, however, basically a financial publication, competing for stories and advertising dollars with the rest of the business press: Barron's, Business Week, Forbes, FORTUNE, Journal of Commerce.

From Time Magazine Archive

After the facts of the Nicaro mess were told in the June issue of FORTUNE, the White House turned thumbs down on Nichols' appointment.

From Time Magazine Archive

Have I not cause?—For her FORTUNE; fortune, thou knowest, was ever a stimulus with me; and this for reasons not ignoble.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 4 by Richardson, Samuel




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