Word: ores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Modern Tempo. In Portland, Ore., Frank A. Staeger, questioned for holding up traffic, explained to police that he had fallen asleep while waiting for the light to change...
Outing. In Portland, Ore., Motorman E. E. Burton took a critical look at his hot, perspiring streetcar passengers, pulled to a stop, bought Eskimo pies for the whole crowd...
...Some 2,000 delegates of the Women's Christian Temperance Union-most of them more than 70 years old-attended its convention in Portland, Ore., clucked in horror as plump, 65-year-old Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin, its perennial president, reported: "This is a time of overpowering, universal and revolting drunkenness among women of all ages, weights and social positions . . . Among the 3,750,000 chronic alcoholics and problem drinkers in the U.S., more than 680,000 are women...
When she graduated, Dr. Kent moved west. In 1919 she went to work in a 25-bed hospital in Harrisburg, Ore., eventually took charge of it. Later, as a country
...worked night & day, in winter sometimes making her rounds by sled or snowshoe. For the last quarter of a century she has been practicing in Eugene, Ore...