What's the difference between postman and tubman?

Postman


Definition:

  • (n.) A post or courier; a letter carrier.
  • (n.) One of the two most experienced barristers in the Court of Exchequer, who have precedence in motions; -- so called from the place where he sits. The other of the two is called the tubman.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cultural critic Neil Postman once observed that you can't use smoke signals for philosophical discussions: the communication channel simply doesn't have the necessary bandwidth.
  • (2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The shiny new Postman Pat and his helicopter.
  • (3) Together with his late wife Janet, he wrote 37 titles including perennial favourites The Jolly Postman and Burglar Bill, and by himself he is the author of many more, including The Pencil, and Woof!
  • (4) "The Postman Always Rings Twice was my starting point," explained Packham.
  • (5) They were widely derided for being the "Postman Pats" of international terrorism, but the Welsh nationalists' prolific firebombing campaign of holiday cottages begun at the end of the 1970s caused havoc in the rural idyll of the Lleyn peninsula.
  • (6) The man who has been in charge of the FTSE 100 company since 2005 said his business hero was Margaret Thatcher and that his first job was as a Christmas postman in Essex at the age of 16.
  • (7) But not in a world where only the postman rings twice.
  • (8) The Detroit native and longtime postman looks down at the freshly cut grass of old Tiger Stadium for a moment, adding, “If [owners] don’t get their way, they threaten to leave.
  • (9) Arthur Stone, a 53-year-old postman from Burton upon Trent, is believed to be the first person in Britain to have been rescued by a housing association from having his home repossessed.
  • (10) Dr Panda’s Postman (£1.79) Another appearance for that moonlighting doctor, this time in Dr Panda’s Postman (or Mailman, as it’s known in the US).
  • (11) The few passers-by - I have seen no one except the postman for the past two days - stop to tell me that I live in "un petit coin de paradis" - a little bit of heaven.
  • (12) The assistant gives it to a messenger, who gives it to the postman.
  • (13) He says it was only a few years ago, when combining postman duties with playing for St Ives Town, that he expected his career to veer in a different direction.
  • (14) Family members, friends, colleagues, strangers, the postman – they all want to know when I will stop taking the pill and are unable to accept my answer.
  • (15) By the time the local postman rides, stunned, into frame on his bike, Robbie Ryan already has the shot.
  • (16) Three members of a farming family and their local postman contracted orf.
  • (17) Seventy years after the event, one of them would still cry at the memory of the postman bringing the death notice in a brown War Office envelope to her home in Edinburgh.
  • (18) But the day after Norris's funeral the Detroit Free Press carried just one story from Lansing - about a postman who has been on the same beat for 50 years.
  • (19) Her hair is left uncovered, except when the postman rings and she goes down to collect a parcel.
  • (20) Ron Goff, 67, a retired postman and perhaps the only other white resident of Vickie Place, had little sympathy for black motorists who cried racism when stopped and fined.

Tubman


Definition:

  • (n.) One of the two most experienced barristers in the Court of Exchequer. Cf. Postman, 2.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Larson said misconceptions about Tubman had flourished in part because she was a “malleable icon”.
  • (2) Women on 20s formally delivered a petition to the White House on Tuesday advocating for Tubman.
  • (3) Manuel said Obama had done this by designating large landscapes as well as places significant to landmark social movements, including labor activist Cesar Chavez’s home ; the Stonewall Inn , where a 1969 police raid kicked off a new front in the LGBT equality movement; and a park dedicated to the work of Harriet Tubman , a former slave who helped other slaves escape to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
  • (4) By escaping slavery and helping many others do the same,” the writer Feminista Jones argued in the Washington Post , “Tubman became historic for essentially stealing ‘property’.
  • (5) Until they’re willing to talk reparations, leave the white guys on the money as a reminder that they created a national economy where men still get paid more than women and Tubman’s black and brown descendant daughters are hit the worst.
  • (6) It takes grit and it takes grace.” Placing Clinton in a lineage of great American women from Rosa Parks and Amelia Earhart to Harriet Tubman and Eleanor Roosevelt, she told the delegates: “You people have made history and you’re gonna make history again in November because Hillary Clinton will be our first woman president … she’ll be the first but she won’t be the last.” Lena Dunham, creator and star of the HBO series Girls, led a series of celebrity endorsements that joined the dots between Clinton’s breaking of glass ceilings and Trump’s dismissive comments about women.
  • (7) Treasury Department (@USTreasury) The front of the new $20 will bear the portrait of Harriet Tubman, whose life was dedicated to fighting for liberty.
  • (8) As she was illiterate and unable to record her own history, little is definitively known about many details of Tubman’s life, Larson said.
  • (9) And I cherish stories of Fannie Lou Hamer singing “This Little Light of Mine ” just as much as I love tales of Harriet Tubman leading slaves home to the north – but tales of black exceptionalism are set in obvious contrast to the stereotypical and still resonant idea of lazy slaves and disenfranchised sharecroppers.
  • (10) Harriet Tubman, the anti-slavery campaigner, is set to appear on the front of the $20 bill, becoming the first woman to be the face of a bill of US currency.
  • (11) To put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill would be an insult to her legacy | Steven W Thrasher Read more Others have argued that the knotted history of slavery and capitalism makes money an inappropriate way to honor an escaped slave.
  • (12) Tubman would be the first woman to appear on a US currency bill.
  • (13) Tubman will be the first woman to appear as the main figure on the front of a bill.
  • (14) When Harriet Tubman and her brothers escaped slavery, a $300 reward was offered for the return of the three of them.
  • (15) After a lifetime working to improve the lives of others, Tubman still suffered at the hands of this economic system in her final days.
  • (16) But now that Harriet Tubman has won the unofficial vote for which woman should replace Andrew Jackson, I am less thrilled.
  • (17) The Treasury had reportedly considered letting Tubman bump founding father Alexander Hamilton, who has been on the $10 bill since 1928.
  • (18) Citing Tubman’s own words, Larson estimates that Tubman led about 70 enslaved people on 13 trips from Maryland to freedom, rather than 300 or 1,000 people, as is often written.
  • (19) Although he concluded with a call for unity, the president’s remarks were broadly focused on paying tribute to leaders of the abolitionist movement, such as Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln.
  • (20) The Hamers, Tubmans, Carvers, deGrasse Tysons, the “lazy” slaves whose resistance to the system in which they found themselves could have cost them their lives, and the black sharecroppers granted the “freedom” to “work on their former owner’s plantation at his terms,” usually in perpetual, unavoidable debt were all exceptional not for being better than their lazy brothers and sisters, but for being superior to structural racism.

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