Word: ore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Portland, Ore...
...bounds of which humble Herman had wickedly stepped. When Playwright George Bernard Shaw spoke out in London and denounced Christmas, the commercial phenomenon, as "an unbearable nuisance," they put the shoe on the other foot and called Mr. Shaw "George Bernard Scrooge,? publicity-hunter." When the Portland (Ore.) Ministerial Association passed a resolution against Christmas giving, there were editorial boos and jeers...
...chief iron-ore-producing region of the United States, moreover, is north and west of Lake Superior; and shipment is made from the northern shore in much greater volume than "from the lake's southern shores...
Citizens of Portland, Ore., flocked to see a curious creature publicly exhibited by one Arthur Kingery of Wapato, Wash., who said he had captured it in his chicken-yard. It was a cat, thrice the size of a house cat, with a tail heavy and furry, like a coyote's. On each side of its spine, beginning just back of the shoulders, grew a pair of muscular ridges, for all the world like two pairs of rudimentary wings, furred heavily. The feline's hind feet measured five inches, spreading out like the feet of a snow-shoe rabbit...
...Great Lakes freighters are long, na-row-beamed, flattish-decked vessels, modifications of the original roundish-decked "whalebacks." The "whalebacks" were so eminently fitted for transporting bulk cargoes like ore, coal and grain that they became world-famed. So now, in popular usage, "whaleback" is often wrongly applied to any lake carrier. Sculptor Daniel Chester French (designer of the Lincoln at Washington, the John Harvard at Cambridge) followed this popular conception when, in his symbolic group before the unwashed Cleveland postoffice, he placed a whaleback on the arm of Commerce to typify modern lake traffic...