Word: latently
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...latest chainizer, calling itself Gillette Camera Stores, Inc., selling kodaks, recently opened in Manhattan with two stores and 100-odd agencies which it calls "Gillette Film Stations." At these, one buys his latent roll of film, deposits his potential pictures for developing and printing at a central laboratory with a capacity of 10,000 rolls per day, to and from which delivery trucks course...
What, as Americans, our forefathers and our peers have done in bring the semitics here, we, also as Americans, must submit is done and, we had better make the best of it--and the best is education, not suppression of native facilities that must possess some latent good. But away with argument. they're here, in Harvard, and nobody's going to put them out, not even supposing that it were desired to put them out. They are part of our cosmopolitan structure, our democratic structure. If you please. They have some with evolution and other things and they...
...potential creative artist? "Is it reasonable to expect Creative Genius to germinate, take root, unfold the buds--to develop steadily, surely--in such soil, such atmosphere?" With anguish the student must realize that his four years at college are not favorable--even hostile--to what true genius lies latent is his breast...
...time they had settled their own difficulties, this country had just emerged from the Civil War with an unequalled military and naval machine, and no national in the world dared to attack us. Since that time, he said, we have enjoyed comparative peace because of the strength of our latent resources...
Mikkola has been given considerable credit for developing the great Finn, but he modestly makes light of his part in turning Nurmi from an ordinary runner into an Olympic champion. He said, "Nurmi owes much to his persistence and our methods of training which brought out his latent abilities. I coached him from 1918 to 1920, and of course last summer at the Olympics, but by that time he could coach himself...