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Word: ores (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Portland, Ore., reporters asked Moshe Menuhin, father of Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, whether he had anyone in mind as a wife for his son. Said Papa Menuhin: "He will make the final choice himself. He has many girl friends, yes. I suppose the time will come when he will have to give himself away to one of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 8, 1937 | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

...there is timber. "We built a hundred cities and a thousand towns but at what a cost." The forests of Wisconsin and Minnesota slip down sluices to the tune of "A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight." The Alleghenies are laid open in the quest for coal and ore. And the uncontrolled Mississippi floods to the delta, carrying the topsoil of the valley with it, leaving gullied hills, scalped plains. As an indication of how the great system can be saved from self destruction, an epilogue shows a glimpse of the flood control and reclamation work of the Tennessee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: 0l' Man River | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

...urban variety houses and the Police Gazette. Squarejawed, blonde Wrestler Mortensen does neither. Now 21, she has been a professional wrestler off & on since she was seven, when her father, who used to wrestle in his native Denmark, matched her with her brother at an Elks picnic in Portland, Ore. for a purse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Strong Sister | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

Married. Ann Cooper Hewitt, 23, heiress who sued her mother for tricking her into a sterilization operation; to Ronald Gay, 30, mechanic at a Shell Oil plant in Oakland, Calif.; in Grants Pass, Ore. Mother Maryon Hewitt McCarter claimed she had the operation performed because her daughter was feeble-minded and "dangerously over-sexed." The physicians who performed it were acquitted of mayhem, but Heiress Gay's $500,000 suit against her mother is still pending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 18, 1937 | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

...Lakeview, Ore., a mad coyote attacked Marvin Gess, 7, bit him five times in the calf of one leg. Ranchers clubbed the coyote to death, slit its throat, pried its jaws loose from Marvin Gess's calf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 11, 1937 | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

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