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Word: ores (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have in Mexico considerable manganese ore and fluor spar, as well, two articles found in very small quantities in the United States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 4, 1939 | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...have been trying to find someone with broad enough vision and sufficient capital to become interested with us in developing these properties. There is no use bringing iron ore thousands of miles when there is a deposit 50 miles from the border...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 4, 1939 | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

When quaint Dexter Merriam Keezer became president of little Reed College (Portland, Ore.) five years ago, he ventured a purely academic joke: that Reed might hire a good football team and special professors to keep the players eligible. Early next morning players, coaches and professors began to arrive in droves to offer their services. Dazed President Keezer sent them away, decided not to trifle again with so serious a subject. Last week football came back to plague Mr. Keezer again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Husky Reed | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...half a day. Because of lack of time, Coaches McElroy & Hub-bard showed their pupils how to score a touchdown but not how to kick a goal afterwards. Reed's team proceeded to whip Multnomah College (a Y. M. C. A. school) and Pacific College of Newberg, Ore. (a Quaker school once attended by Herbert Hoover), each by the margin of a point after touchdown (knowing nothing better to do, they passed). Then they licked a CCC team at Camp Goldendale. Wash. Last fortnight, having topped off their five-game season with a six-touchdown victory, they became...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Husky Reed | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

This week in Manhattan the committee issued a dismally illustrated "Preliminary Report." It was promptly denounced by Secretary Evan Just of the Tri-State Zinc & Lead Ore Producers Association as "damned blackmail." The report contains no harrowing Gauley Bridge tales of mass burials and walking skeletons. It offers only Government statistics, a short medical treatise on silicosis, eyewitness accounts of Tri-State life. What distinguishes the committee's report from most of the 50-odd other silicosis reports which have come out in the last 20 years is the fact that it treats silicosis not as a disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Zinc Stink | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

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