Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...junior high schools last week, Oregon boys & girls of 12 and 13 were learning the facts of life from a film. After nearly ten years of cautious preparation, the state of Oregon had taken a bold step. It was sponsoring a film that candidly brought before mixed adolescent audiences the truth about menstruation, reproduction, glands and growth...
...furry, aquatic, testy little wild animal, is a new U.S. resident. In the current issue of the Journal of Wildlife Management, Frank G. Ashbrook of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announces that nutrias have recently appeared in many parts of the U.S. -from Louisiana to Michigan and Oregon. They seem to be increasing and spreading rapidly...
...Oregon, Deweymen assessed the damage done by Stassen's four-day visit, began wondering whether their man should not come out for a speech before the May 21 primary. In Wisconsin, which Dewey had confidently neglected, Stassen had suddenly forged ahead, was now conceded to hold the lead. Belatedly, Dewey strategists noticed that their slate in the April 6 primary lacked outstanding names. Secretary of State Fred Zimmerman, the state's most potent vote-getter, who had helped Dewey defeat Willkie in the 1944 primary, had deserted to head the Mac-Arthur forces. Sparked by Senator Joe McCarthy...
...committee, sporting deans of Rutgers, Illinois State, and Oregon as agricultural constituents, "may constitute one of the greatest collections of expert talent ever assembled in peacetime," according to the New York Times...
...Europe, are as remarkable for what Parkman missed as they are for the precocious talent with which he described what interested him. He was only 17 when he made his first entries, but he had already decided to become an historian. At 23 he made his tour of the Oregon Trail, wrote his most famous (but far from his best) book during the next three years. The Oregon Trail journal, as Editor Wade points out, is better as history, and more readable, than the book written from it. The reason: illness and near-blindness forced Parkman to dictate, a method...