Word: portlanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such a way as to arouse suspicion as to the motivation behind it and to make them wonder how the results would be used. "The circumstances were also apparently such as to annoy the students and to invite ironical and flippant answers." the Crimson pointed out. "For example, Portland, Oregon was frequently said to be located on the Mississippi River or on the Atlantic seaboard, and Franklin Roosevelt was listed among the Presidents who have been assassinated...
...example, the Times was greatly distressed because only 15 per cent placed Portland. Ore, on the Columbia River as the Times expected them to. The current Rand-McNally Atlas places it squarely on the contributory Willamette, with the city limits stopping noticeably short of the Columbia. "Close, but no cigar...
...apparently presented to the students in such a way as to arouse suspicion as to the motivation behind it and to make them wonder how the results would be used. The circumstances were also apparently such as to annoy the students and to invite ironical and flippant answers (e.g., Portland, Oregon, was frequently said to be located on the Mississippi River or on the Atlantic seaboard, and Franklin D. Roosevelt was listed among the presidents who have been assassinated...
Buildings that look like barns-which many people consider very beautiful-have made the reputation of Pietro Bel-luschi, architect of Portland, Ore. This week for the first time he plans to hang out his own shingle. He will hang it on the same Jefferson Street house (under Portland's Vista ''Suicide" Bridge), long occupied by the defunct firm of which he had been a member (A. E. Doyle & Associate...
...haired, grey-eyed Pietro Belluschi was born in Ancona, Italy in 1899, served as an officer in the Italian Army in World War I. After getting an architectural degree in Rome in 1922, Belluschi came to the U.S. to study engineering at Cornell. He was hired in 1925 by Portland's architect A. E. Doyle. Two years later he was head designer for the firm. Says he: "Barns lack pompousness. To say my houses look like barns is flattering...