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
"Santana played at 3 o'clock in the morning," recalled Dorpat.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 12, 2011
Dorpat enlisted the help of a philosophy professor at the University of Washington, John Chambless, to book the event.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 12, 2011
Movement by clockwork was virtually a complete novelty when it was adopted by Fraunhofer in 1824 to the Dorpat refractor.
From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Clerke, Agnes M. (Agnes Mary)
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