Word: potter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your issue of Sept. 7, Page 10, centre column: "Incarnadined" is too long and fancy a word for such a plain paragraph. On the same page "grooved only with the austere colophon." You are reading the dictionary too much. Page 30 - last two lines : "shoveled into the ground at Potter's field." Very inaccurate ; a corpse is too big to shovel handily. WM. E. CLARK...
...Brooks Potter '24, Head Proctor...
...Brooks Potter '24, a graduate of Milton, will be Head Proctor in Standish Hall. He was manager of the hockey team in college, besides being active in other undergraduate activities, and is at present studying in the Law School...
...been so long and so intimately under the observation of Victor Lawson. The item, a very inconspicuous one, spoke of another burial. It related how Eric Nelson and Ted ("Texas") Court, the marauders who died in the raid on the Drake hotel, had been shoveled into the ground at Potter's Field...
...gist of the situation is that if the Northwestern roads were given high enough rates to enable the St. Paul to live, its rival roads would prosper too much to suit local shippers, Washington politicians and others. The "Potter plan" solution is to give a moderate rate increase only, and turn over to St. Paul most of the profits coming thereby to its rival roads. The St. Paul wants a rate increase on any terms that promise its own solvency. Shippers growl at much higher rates. These interests are well cared for by the plan. But the rival roads...