Word: ores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last thing Dexter Merriam Keezer did before he became president of Reed College (Portland, Ore.) was to promise a friend he would not turn into a "stuffed shirt." After one year in the job President Keezer felt compelled last fortnight to warn all ambitious young educators how close he had come to breaking his promise. Wrote he in his annual report: "The conception [of the college president held by much of the community] is perhaps best reflected by the subjects on which I have been asked to address groups: The Future of the Western Hemisphere, Shakespeare's Message...
...West Scheduled to make two speeches on one July day, he delivered seven when great crowds blocked the highway between Tulsa and Oklahoma City. For six August days m the State of Washington, 20,000 listeners per day turned out to hear his gospel of salvation. In Portland, Ore. he preached...
...Haas, who once was a fruit-grower himself, explained that somewhere in the earth below the apple a gold deposit must exist. He also explained that his indicator would do much more than locate an ore body. If, when suspended above an ore body, it swung back & forth 100 times, then the bottom of the ore body was 100 feet below the earth's surface. If it oscillated in a circle 20 times, then the ore contained one ounce of gold to the ton. Judging how far below the earth the top of an ore body might...
Manhattan, Philadelphia and Boston can still claim to have the world's three blue-ribbon orchestras. But symphony music will also be played eloquently this winter in Chicago, Cincinnati, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Ore., Rochester, N. Y., Detroit. St. Louis' symphony attendance has increased more than 50% in the last two seasons. New orchestras have taken firm root in Washington, D. C., Kansas City, Duluth. More concerts will be given in Pittsburgh, Indianapolis, Baltimore, Richmond, Syracuse, Louisville, Ky., Asheville, N. C., Lincoln, Neb., Houston, Dallas, Denver, Milwaukee, Seattle, in many another U. S. city. Women have...
...again. The Brunswick Hotel, baseball headquarters was near Boston University. Cochrane met the players who stayed there, decided it was a pleasant way to live. He joined the Saranac Lake team in 1923. Dover, in the Eastern Shore League, bought him and got rich by selling him to Portland, Ore. for $15,000. From Portland, Cochrane went to the Athletics. Experts generally considered him the spark plug of the team with which Connie Mack won the pennant three times...