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Word: porters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tragedy and Progress in Today's 'Cycle of Cathay'" will be the subject of a lecture by Professor Lucius C. Porter of Yenching University at 8 o'clock tonight in the Littauer Center...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Porter of Yenching To Lecture Tonight | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

...Richards, publicity director of the United Service's women's branch, announced that Porter's speech, which she expects to be "of great interest," will be open to the public at no cost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Porter of Yenching To Lecture Tonight | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

EMILY LINDEN PORTER Berkeley, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 27, 1947 | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

...makes a Change." At first London was jittery; it expected clashes and cracked skulls. But at Smithfield (meat), at Billingsgate (fish), at Covent Garden (vegetables), the strikers stood aside, watching placidly, but with professional scorn, as the soldiers inexpertly tugged and hauled unaccustomed burdens. Sighed one striking porter as a young Coldstream Guardsman struggled with a sack of potatoes: "He'll rupture hisself if he don't watch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Operation Eatables | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

...just after 7 in the evening. Francisco ("Panchito") Grana Garland, 45, boss of Lima's ultraconservative La Prensa, manager of a big pharmaceutical business, had had a long day at the office. "Good night, sonny," he said to the porter, and headed toward his car. A moment later six shots crackled in the street. The porter got out in time to see a sedan turn the corner. Grana lay mortally wounded at the wheel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERU: Good Night, Sonny | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

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