Word: portland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alexander Long has made famous, not only by trademarking each board he puts out, but more so by creating the model industrial city of Longview on a drab stretch of the Washington shore of the Columbia River. Oceangoing steamers can dock at Longview. It is a little west of Portland...
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Over a million in night schools. The type: male and female, aged 19½%. Only 15% left school for financial reasons, having simply "lost interest," having returned to study because convinced by experience that "education pays." In Milwaukee and Portland, Ore., 6% of the population goes to night school. The national proportion is 51½%. Some 150,000 in university extension courses.* The type: a woman teacher aged 30, studying Romance languages, English, mathematics, history. California and North Carolina are her habitat...
...Manila, in Honolulu, in Tientsin, in the Canal Zone, in Burlington (Vt.), in Camp Lewis (Wash.), in San Francisco, in Minneapolis, in Tidewater (Va.), in Columbus (Ga.) and Columbus (O.), in Chicago, in Manhattan, in Boston, in St. Louis, in San Antonio, in Atlanta, in Portland (Me.), there were dinners given one night last week, "annual assemblies" of the graduates of West Point...
UNCHANGING QUEST?Philip Gibbs?Doran ($2). Averaging the reports of leading bookstores from Portland, Ore., to Boston, one finds that of all fiction published this year this book is most in demand...