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Word: potters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enclose herewith part of a letter from Ray Potter, one of my former roommates at Yale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 19, 1928 | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

Despite its atrocious style, its incongruity in a bracket of sheer apartment houses, those familiar with the castle's tradition regard it affectionately, reverently. For here live the Potter Palmers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Where Was Bertha? | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

With a horse, Ulysses loosed destruction over Troy. In 1871, Mrs. O'Leary did the same for Chicago with a petulant cow, which shattered an oil lantern in its straw-lined stall. Flames ran amuck, ravaged the straggling town, left it blackened, hollow, crisp. Disconsolate, penniless, young Potter Palmer stood in the ashes of his home. Suddenly, where was Bertha? Bertha had borrowed a buggy, careened into a nearby village, wired New York for an extension of credit. New York agreed, and-phoenix-like-Chicago and the Potter Palmers soared together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Where Was Bertha? | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

...Palmer returned to the U. S.; rested on her laurels. In 1918, she died at Sarasota, Fla., bequeathing her collection of Corot, Bissavis, Whistler, Monet, Millet, to the Chicago Art Institute; her castle and fortune to Potter Palmer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Where Was Bertha? | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

...benefit of the Crimson reserve material, putting on numerous formations of rather odd nature. It was revealed that the Engineers often use a nine man line on the attack. There were only a few changes in the Team B lineup from that of the previous workout. J. W. Potter '30, erstwhile fullback who has been shifted to the tackle squad, was given a much needed drill in view of the fact that he may take the place of K. D. Robinson '29 tomorrow. That will be his initial test in the new post and the possibility of his holding down...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SUBSTITUTES WORK ON LEHIGH ATTACK | 11/2/1928 | See Source »

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