Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oregon, May 18, is a primary in which a candidate's name may be entered without his consent. Kefauver won in 1952 against token opposition. Democratic State Chairman Howard Morgan recently announced for Stevenson, came out with a blast against Harriman and Tammany Hall Boss Carmine De Sapio. Jack Bain, who headed Kefauver's 1952 primary campaign, says that "we will get Kefauver on the ballot, by petition if necessary, unless the Senator objects himself-and I haven't heard of any objections." As they approach the Oregon primary, the Democratic hopefuls will be acutely aware that...
...compare today's students with those of only yesterday, Chairman Herbert B. Nelson of Oregon State's Department of English decided to give 1,800 freshmen the very same examination given in 1927. His findings: yesterday's students knew more about both spelling and grammar, had nowhere near as much trouble with such words as similar, laboratory and apologize. In '1927 the freshmen made 53 errors on 163 questions. Today's average: 66 errors...
Immediately after the ABC's decision, a unanimous vote of the Institute for Advanced Study retained Oppenheimer as director. Columbia University and the University of Oregon last year appointed Oppenheimer as a guest lecturer, but the University of Washington refused to invite the physicist to Seattle...
Last week in Oregon, where partisanship has veiled the partnership program in obscurity, the issue came to life in a series of ten lively debates up and down the state between Democratic Senator Richard Neuberger and Republican Representative Sam Coon. Proposition: "The John Day* bill (introduced in the House last spring by Coon) is in the public interest...
...Thomas B. Fitzpatrick and colleagues at the University of Oregon's Medical School report that a drug called 8-methoxypsoralen (8-MOP for short), used for treatment of skin blemishes as long ago as old Egypt, also increases the skin's tanning ability. When taken in small precise doses during carefully timed exposure, 8-MOP will permit users to get a tan without going through a painful burning stage. The effect of 8-MOP is not protective, Dr. Fitzpatrick warns, but speeds up the effects of the sun; large doses will produce a painful burn...