Word: latently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Surely what we need these days is dignity in talking about our common problems, and courage in combating the latent prejudices which wake to life at the lightest touch. We can appreciate the psychology of those men, who in smoldering resentment at what appeared to them to be continual discrimination talked wildly and loosely. But we must also know the reactions of those other men who do have visceral sensations at the presence of fellow students not entirely like themselves in background and behavior...
...struggle as exceedingly likely to be defeated, Coach Bingham's men rolled up a total of 84 points to the Engineers' 51. It was a surprising triumph, not because the Crimson won, but because in winning it showed an almost unbelievable improvement over its spring trip records and a latent power which only a few had dreamed it possessed...
...believed that the geologist assigned greater antiquity to the earth and sun than the caloric energy of the two would allow. But not that it is known that sun than the caloric energy of the two would allow. But now that it is known that such tremendous power is latent tin these toast, geologists and physicists can celebrate with unanimity the 1600 millionth anniversary of the world's birthday and toast enthusiastically "ten billion more...
...Academy functions under a charter from Congress. And who knows but that the flavor of foreign recognition is just the straw of confidence Americans want and need? After all, ours is an embryo development, sans tradition, sans reputation, and recognition from abroad may be the impetus necessary to awaken latent genius...
...Whitney declares the figures of "Three Soldiers" "moral and mental cowards and, like all great emotional experiences, the war merely intensifier those qualities which they already possessed". War, that is to say, is an impartial intensifier of what is latent in men, bringing out the good as readily as the bad. The whole point of "Three Soldiers" is the negation of this. War gives scope to some virtues, but who is there who will defend the thesis that it calls out more of the good in man than the bad? To gain an end, it appeals to the bestial arid...