Word: latent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ratified atmosphere which is "good against the disease" is also "good for the disease" and brings to the surface the latent weakness of his lungs. He becomes a regular patient and gives up the idea of an immediate return to the world below. From there on the terrible forces set in motion are carried to their ultimate conclusion...
...outset little chance of finding value in higher education, but it is a question whether, even if awakened, the suspicions would be taken seriously. Only a few of pre-college age, or older for that matter, are able to speak freely and with assurity about their tastes and latent possibilities, where even an observer passing judgement cannot be too sure of "latent possibilities...
Automobiles had become a troublesome problem in Princeton, as elsewhere. Five undergraduate deaths, the poor scholastic standing of 200 student automobile owners and the threat to Princeton's traditional seclusion latent in roadsters capable of reaching bright-lit cities in two hours of the day or night, moved Dean Christian Gauss to ask the senior council to pass a prohibitive ruling. He asked twice. The council took no action. It had passed a rule last spring requiring parental permission for student motors. Cars were not allowed to enter the campus. The council believed that was sufficient prohibition. Dean Gauss...
...should marry a woman who is the descendant of, or who is herself, a famed person age, TIME will record his marriage, divorce or death. - ED. Resurrection Sirs: When you first conceived the idea of TIME, it is probable that you did not conceive the many latent powers such a conception possessed. In fact, when I first subscribed, neither did I believe that your worthy newsmagazine would give me more than an interesting condensation of the in formation important in the day's news. But speaking of modern semi-miracles, I believe you should know of an instance which...
Singer Ernestine Schumann Heink helped out the American Tobacco Co. last week. This concern, like all other tobacco manufacturers has been reluctant to advertise directly to women cigaret smokers, although women at present are an important clientele; but the manufacturers feared arousing the latent U. S. hostility to tobacco (TIME, Jan. 31). Prohibition has taught them much. However, the American Tobacco Co.'s advertising agency advised boldness and got Madame Schumann Heink to testify: "I recommend Lucky Strikes because they are kind to my throat." If Madame Schumann Heink smokes cigarets and yet remains solidly respectable and virtuous...