Word: latently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Quervain of Switzerland retold the well-known prophylactic use of iodine in common salt against goitre. It is less well-known that iodine as a preventive is effective only before adolescence. After puberty iodine may stimulate a latent goitre...
This small Walt awes her somewhat. He is affectionate, demonstrative, but utterly imperturbable, even before his father's taciturn anger or tenderness. When, by 16, he has towered up to his father's height and beam, his mother has accepted as inscrutable in him a poise that seems a latent power, like a wind not yet blowing...
Resistlessly impelled by latent causes of unrest, a revolution burst at Warsaw last week, ran its triumphant course. Once more was recalled the dictum of that outspoken Austrian, General Pflanzer: "Ha! The Poles? Sir, they are one-third magpies, one-third rabbits, one-third LIONS...
Both sides seek guarantees, the one against sudden wage reduction, the other both against the snooping investigations that were latent in the first proposal of the miners and against the trap of fading profits into which a lowered coal price might turn the "frozen wage" scheme. In truth the dangers of fixed wages or prices are too real to be overlooked. A sliding scale relating wages and prices would suit the operators better, but the miners would still fear secret intrigue. With all its defects, the first proposal of the miners is the clearest of all the plans. It requires...
...right mind, unless he is in hard financial straits, will 'turn pro.' The lure of fame, of course, gets many, and will always get a few each year. But a man like Red Grange has no future after his college football days are over, unless some latent ability of his is still uncovered. His risk of injury is great, and he may lose his whole means of earning money within a few days. The greater a man is, the sooner he may fall. And great men, especially in athletics are just curiosities. The public wants to see them once...