Word: porter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...assistants in the Medical School are as follows: J. F. Enders, J. S. Jacobs '25, E. F. Porter, S. R. Mettier, L. B. Ellis '22, W. D. Sutliff, Fred Gibbs, H. H. Merritt Jr., A. B. Donovan, L. E. White, W. H. Lewis '22, G. K. Mallory '22, H. E. Gallup, E. S. Goodwin, H. P. Pyle, and Horatio Rogers...
...Bishop Brent. He goes to their villages to talk to them about Christ, and stopping their headhunting. He's done quite a piece of work among them." My memory of Bishop Brent is on that hot, dusty mountain road, his hand upon the head of his lowly porter, as the General and I drank our stirrup cup. I was, as I said, reminded of him by reading that the exalted English prelate was yachting. FREDERICK O'BRIEN Sausalito, Calif...
...ruling was occasioned by a dispute over the right of women members of the church to address the convention, to cast votes. Dr. John William Porter, editor of the American Baptist, stormily opposed gallant Dr. Truett. "We go right against the Scriptures!" he warned his undisputed brethren. "We break a precedent of 2,000 years!" Dr. Truett silenced his brother by quoting the Southern Baptist constitution...
...yard run--Won by Ripley (D); second R. P. Porter '29; third, Andrews (D). Time...
...symptoms, then suddenly asked, "How old are you, Mr. Sophocles?" With a ready presence of mind and as pretty ingenuity as if he were not lying at the point of death, Sophocles answered: "The Arabs, Dr. W., estimate age by several standards. The age of Hassan, the porter, is reckoned by his wrinkles; that of Abdallah, the physician, by the lives he has saved; that of Achmet, the sage, by his wisdom, I, all my life a scholar, am nearing my hundredth year...