Word: latent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Wyse explained that in the story Pedro's father, Alfonso the twelfth of Castle, had abandoned his wife and his child for another woman, and that Pedro had grown up in extreme poverty. The latent good in Pedro's character, especially during his formative years, was crushed by the revengeful temper of his mother, and the mean circumstances in which he was placed. The drama shows the great influence of Maria de Pedillia over Pedro, and his reaction...
...score particularly. Although I have not the figures to prove that this is true I can say that a majority of the men in college who make the first group are students who are concentrating in the Classics. Their study sharpens the wits and increases the scholarship that is latent in everyone. Of all the men who concentrate in Classics 75 percent have the ambition and desire to try for distinction, which is a far higher percentage than in most departments...
Such is the danger latent in the period of graduation. The well-known banalities are less than useless the graduate armed with them is fighting with a straw. The remedies are but two abolish the speeches, or reshape them to the time...
...letter has also been received from Mr. Charles B. Welles, secretary of the Yale Chapter, who states that "there are very many likely ball players among us." In view of this fact, and the talent known to be latent in the Harvard Chapter, a hard-fought contest is expected on June...
...Hamlen Garland, in "the Bookman", sums up the bill board-movie-magazine peril in discouraging terms. His only consolation for the state in which frenzied fiction finds itself, is the doubtful one that time may change affairs, and that another century, may bring to the surface more of the latent "aesthetic sense" in the human race than is now present...