Word: pratt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could the brain, protected by the skull, have got such a beating? The investigators, Dr. Harold R. Pratt-Thomas and Dr. Knute E. Berger, admitted that they were baffled, but they strongly suspected that violent stretching and bending of the head might account for it. Said they: "[The blood vessels] could have been damaged by manipulations that forcibly brought them into contact with the cranial case...
second and third stanzas forward Joe Holman, whose 14 points were high for the evening's work, and center Bob Pratt brought the Tigers up to a ten-point deficit, 37 to 27, going into the fourth quarter. But a set-shot by Hauphtfuhrer and two lay-ups by Mariaschin sent the Cantabs back into a safe 16-point lead...
Three days later, he sounded even less convincing. On an inspection trip to the Pratt General Hospital at Coral Gables, he said that talk of his political future "is not good for the great organization I command...
...News, dated March 1943, evidently cut by Parkhurst himself, showed that he had been classified 1-A by his Cambridge draft board, only to end up as a high WPB official. A Senate investigation disclosed that he later resigned from this government position to take a job with the Pratt-Whitney aircraft corporation...
...already in the $75,000-a-year class as a freelancer, and as art director of an advertising agency, snub-nosed Paul Rand still looks very much like the kid who spent his evenings studying commercial art at Brooklyn's Pratt Institute. He has never stopped studying, and he insists that Critic Roger Fry, Novelist André Malraux and Philosopher John Dewey have taught him a lot about the uses of art, "although I don't understand them half the time...