Word: latently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...system should develop many a latent ambition. The knowledge that their fellow classmates, and even the world at large, may know just how they stand in their studies will have potent influence. Not only will the family receive the list of marks--a list that often lacks significance and is glibly interpreted by the student--but all his friends may know just how he stands. He will see that "dumb-bell" from Dedham stands well above his friend whom he used to think was pretty clever. Perhaps in the finals be will be able to outdistance the crack student...
...more reserved and less responsive than the hybrid children of warmer parts of our country. Austerity--not "lure"--is the chief characteristic of the "stern daughter of the Voice of God". And there is, too, a certain shyness and self consciousness about New Englanders that, taken with the conviction latent in their bones that gaiety and sin are somehow related, makes them advance slowly in friendship and embarrassed about their emotions even when these are entirely respectable...
...more reserved and less responsive than the hybrid children of warmer parts of our country. Austerity--not "lure"--is the chief characteristic of the "stern daughter of the Voice of God". And there is, too, a certain shyness and self consciousness about New Englanders that, taken with the conviction latent in their bones that gaiety and sin are somehow related, makes them advance slowly in friendship and embarrassed about their emotions even when these are entirely respectable...
...labor would do against the tendency to forestall future organization and aspirations, he replied, "Labor will make a concerted and organized resistance. It is not an easy thing to destroy an organization of five million men. Most of the trouble now-a-days is due to the fomentation of latent discontent by agents provocateurs'. The fact of the matter is that 80 percent of all detective agencies are engaged in industrial trouble. The whole scheme is dastardly. One of the things the agents provocateurs' do is to encourage and bring about demands before the organization is ready...
...recurrence of the threat against the nation's future welfare that was felt fifteen years ago. The lumber and water-power interests have been chafing under the restraint that has held them back from a rapid road to fortune at the public's expense. They want the timber and latent power now kept from them in the National Parks and Reservations, and they want a Secretary of the Interior who will back their interests...