Word: pratt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Peter E. Pratt...
Thurber, the Treasurer, who comes from Grosse Point, Michigan, and lives in Eliot House, chalked up 140 votes. His unsuccessful competitors and the votes cast for them were: Peter E. Pratt, 136; Calvin H. Elliott, Jr., 107; and James M. Baughart...
...parallel usage, cf. Hamlet, gravedigger scene: "Quite chop-fallen." Webster gives prat, Partridge's Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, prat or pratt. Example: "We ain't to do nothing . . . but to set down upon our prats...
...seminary $1,250,000. Still another friend was George Parmly Day, now Yale's treasurer. To Yale, Alumnus Hark ness gave some $25,000,000. When in 1922 Edward Harkness decided that he needed an assistant to direct his philanthropies, he hired an Old Blue, clean-cut Malcolm Pratt Aldrich, captain of Yale football and baseball teams, an All-America halfback...
...Peter E. Pratt...