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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A city of western Oregon on the Willamette River south-southwest of Salem. It is the seat of Oregon State University (established 1868).

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  • CORVALLIS - Back in 1974, few would have thought that a calculator plant in northeast Corvallis could one day make every computer its own print shop.

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  • CORVALLIS - For a brief if not-so-shining moment, Corvallis was Oregon's territorial capital.

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  • CORVALLIS - For a brief if not-so-shining moment, Corvallis was Oregon's territorial capital.

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  • CORVALLIS - Glass blower Eric Bailey usually works alone in the small workshop behind his Corvallis home.

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  • CORVALLIS - Seattle's Jim Page will return to Corvallis for another intimate concert at 6 p.m.

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  • CORVALLIS - Glass blower Eric Bailey usually works alone in the small workshop behind his Corvallis home.

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  • CORVALLIS - Back in 1974, few would have thought that a calculator plant in northeast Corvallis could one day make every computer its own print shop.

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  • CORVALLIS - For Seattle storyteller Pat Peterson, being one of three featured artists at this week's seventh annual Tcha Tee Man Wi Storytelling Festival in Corvallis is a bit of a homecoming.

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  • CORVALLIS - Morgan Grace spent her early years in Sweet Home, but her most impressionable years in Corvallis, attending Highland View Middle School and Corvallis High School before moving to Portland to pursue a career as a guitar playing singer / songwriter in 1995.

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  • CORVALLIS - Morgan Grace spent her early years in Sweet Home, but her most impressionable years in Corvallis, attending Highland View Middle School and Corvallis High School before moving to Portland to pursue a career as a guitar playing singer / songwriter in 1995.

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