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Word: ores (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time in 17 years the P. O. on W. had convened in Washington (next year it's Portland, Ore.) and the expensive Mayflower Hotel unbent to make the event a social success. Rates were cut to $2.17 per night and 1,560 of its rooms were occupied. Its parlors and lobbies were filled not only with those who dressed like President Combs but with carriers in shirt sleeves, without neckties. The bars did little business, conversation was quiet, and the Washington Herald said admiringly of the crowd: "It was interested and curious, but unawed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIVIL SERVICE: Post Offices on Wheels | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

...Coquille, Ore., Walter Smith was in court on his 43rd charge of drunkenness. Judge Frank Leslie gave him the choice of pouring 20 quarts of confiscated whiskey down the sink or going to jail for 30 days. Indignant, Walter Smith went to jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Birds | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

Residents of Port Orford, Ore. made a great to-do last week about a mislaid meteorite. Somewhere in the wilderness to the southeast lay a huge clod of stone and metal. Exactly where it was, only one person thought he knew. In 1859 Dr. John Evans, a U. S. Government geologist, stumbled on a meteoritic body, almost entirely buried, whose mass he estimated at 22,000 Ib. A 25-gram sample was sent to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. The meteorite was classified as a pallasite-a mixture of olivine (green magnesium iron silicate) and metallic iron. Unfortunately, before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dollars from Heaven? | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

After a rehearsal of the Portland, Ore. stadium Philharmonic orchestra, Cleveland's Dr. Artur Rodzinski went to spend a day with his favorite animals: goats. On the way out he discussed them. Excerpt: "Goats are the sweetest pets, better than a dog. No, no, no, only the gentleman goat smells bad. You must put him in a pen half a mile away from the lady goats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 29, 1938 | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

...sightseers at 25? a head peeked over a fence into a nudist corral. Bona fide nudists denounced the show, and indignant opinion throughout the country drove nudism under cover. Last fortnight the American Sunbathing Association, largest official nudist organization, held its second annual Pacific Coast convention at Estacada, Ore. Accomplishments: election of officers (who modestly withheld their names), formation of the Western Sunbathing Conference, reaffirmation of nudists' high ideals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Nudist Convention | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

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