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Word: portlier (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boisterousness, the pride and the sentimentality were wrapped up together in the weekend's grand "P-rade." Two miles of sign-swinging Princeton men, paced by 32 military bands, wound in & out of the campus to University Field. At their head was orange-bereted Marshal Melville Dickenson, portlier now than when he captained Princeton's undefeated 1922 football team. Round University Field the alumni marched in review-past President Harold Dodds and a handful of pre-1896 Tigers (their joints no longer limber enough for P-rading.) Then everybody sang Old Nassau, and settled down to watch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Old Home Week | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

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