Word: latent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...skill, are profoundly Anglican, closer in spirit and allusion to Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll than to any U. S. humor. In some of them Eliot goes kittenish in a big way, recalling that suspect, sissified element in Lear and Carroll which sets U. S. teeth on edge. Yet latent in other of Possum's poems is enough ferocious fancy and parody to knock the spots off most cat books and most child verses...
With a burst of latent power kept undercover all season, Coach Henry lamar's Jayvee eleven steamrolled over an outclassed Boston University Freshman contingent and emerged on the long end of a 26 to 0 count yesterday afternoon on Soldiers Field...
Dean M. Kerl, in his letter to the Oct. 2 issue of TIME, makes a good point but overlooks, I think, the latent power to be represented that is actually in the hands of voters between the ages of 21 and 30. Unless I am greatly mistaken voters between the ages of 21 and 30 outnumber the older voters. If this is so youth, in the interests of youth, and old people like me, should forget party affiliations and force an amendment to the Constitution. As the law stands, Representatives must be at least 25, Senators at least...
Reason for the sudden change: the advent of World War II changed the minds of Marion's customers in the latent coal-copper-iron business. They wanted shovels -wanted them fast. In ten days Marion got $1,000,000 worth of orders (one-sixth of a normal year's business...
First result was a belittled report that price control by decree was near (see p. 64), As President and as Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces, Franklin Roosevelt indeed had at hand a host of latent powers, all the broader because many are implied rather than specific. Some stem from the U. S. Constitution, some from statutes dating back to the 18th Century, many from laws passed for Woodrow Wilson before and during World War I and never repealed, others from New Deal laws. Last week Attorney General Frank Murphy and his Department of Justice attorneys were under...