Word: post
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Important Product. At Father O'Hara's first post in Portland, Ore. it became clear that he liked to plow new ground in the Lordls vineyard. In 1913, when such causes were far from popular, he took the lead in pushing a minimum wage law through the Oregon legislature- one of the first com pulsory wage laws in the U.S. But perhaps his dearest concern of all, as both priest and bishop, is in developing his church in rural areas...
...went with [them] to cornhuskings, apple-peelings, bean stringings, square dances, and to the belling of the bride when there was a wedding . . . I never missed a party at the mill when they made sorghum molasses ... I went to all the churches ... I went to parties where we played post office and where we danced Skip to my Lou . . . There was somewhere to go every night...
Referring to post-war studies of agricultural needs made by the department of Agriculture, Waugh urged the study of national clothing, housing, coal, steel, automobile, road, and school needs and the setting of production goals in these and other fields...
University officials expect a student body of 4950 after today's rush is over, the figure includes 1,120 freshmen-the smallest post-war class-and 234 returning upperclassmen who registered last week...
After two post-war modern buildings by the University's traditional architects, Coolidge, Sheply, Bulfinch, and Abbot Harvard has turned to Groplus, and in a more general sense, to its own School of Design...