Allport
Americannoun
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World War II was the formative experience for more than one generation of British men, women and children, as Mr. Allport illuminatingly shows us.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
Mr Allport travelled from the Midlands to Grafham Water on Tuesday to see the gull.
From BBC • Aug. 13, 2022
I discovered the answer lurking in the work of an early-20th-century psychologist, Floyd Allport.
From Scientific American • Apr. 27, 2022
He and his team drew on the work of Gordon Allport, who in 1954 solidified research proving that contact between minority groups and majority groups can reduce prejudice in the latter.
From Washington Post • Sep. 14, 2017
In 1867 Mr. James Allport was general manager of the Midland Railway, Mr. Thomas Walklate the goods manager and Mr. William Parker head of the department in which I began my railway life.
From Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland by Tatlow, Joseph
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