Word: porter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coach expects a good showing from his men, most of whom are on their way back into form. W. Penn Tuttle '40, will captain the team; others running will be: Richard Wing '40, E. Langdon Burwell '41, Lightbody '40, Malcolm Mackenzie '41, Eugene V. Clark '40, and Frank L. Porter...
...Porter has been running the half mile up to now, but has no Varsity experience. His cross country running was rather intermittent and irregular last year but Jaakko says he's doing fairly well, and that's all he's said for any of the follows...
Outside his immediate official family, Frank Murphy has had Franklin Roosevelt's help in strengthening U. S. district and circuit courts, so that he can count on at least one high-calibre judge in each jurisdiction. In Manhattan, he counts on Circuit Judge Robert Porter Patterson, a Republican. In Philadelphia, it is Circuit Judge Francis Biddle, a New Dealer. New tone has been sought for the bench by picking eminent law teachers. Example: Herschel Arant, dean of Ohio State University's Law School, now a judge of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals...
Colgate University's Professor Porter G. Perrin also found a discrepancy between classroom English and the way most people talk, also tried to do something about it last week. His An Index to English* intended "to answer some common questions about English usage and style," makes no bones about being colloquial, passes as good usage in spoken English such a word as enthuse, such an expression as it's me, such pronunciations as ree'-search and ex-qui'-site. Professor Perrin thinks Americans had better stick to American words and not fool around with such tony...
Next day it appeared that Miss Mercer also had previous entanglements. Pullman Porter Carson Clarence Rollins Jr. popped up and casually informed newsmen that he had married her in Stroudsburg, Pa. in 1931.* But he was indulgent about it, observing: "Imagine my surprise on learning that my wife was about to become a Princess...