Dorpat
Americannoun
noun
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Paul Dorpat, in his encyclopedic book “Building Washington,” mourned that the viaduct “stretched a permanent cataract over the eye of the city.”
From Seattle Times • Jan. 27, 2022
The pastor’s son Paul Dorpat, historian and founder of our “Now & Then” column, allows that the 1967 trip was their only venture abroad and certainly a highlight of their lives.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 10, 2021
Also possible is a different game essential to “Now & Then” that Paul Dorpat, originator of this column, likens to “hide and seek.”
From Seattle Times • Jan. 2, 2020
SAT Photographers/historians Paul Dorpat and Jean Sherrard, the forces behind the “Now and Then” column in The Seattle Times’ Pacific Magazine, in an in-person presentation of their photography collaboration, 2 p.m.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 21, 2015
At the same time a strictly Lutheran theology flourished at the universities of Erlangen, Leipzig, Rostock, and Dorpat, which sought to revive the doctrine of the sixteenth century, clothed in the language of the nineteenth.
From The History of Freedom by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron
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