Word: latently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slowly are giving up old ideas, old prejudices, slowly are coming to the realization that it is necessary in politics, in society, in economic organization, to preserve the dignity of man, the dignity of all men. . . . This belief in the dignity of man as an individual was a latent faith in men's hearts even while they basked in a civilization they did not intelligently appreciate or quite believe in-a faith that in due time should remake the world...
...School records of morons and imbeciles usually give them away, yet many of them are inducted. Their mental inadequacy coupled with the strains of military life may bring out latent mental disease which would not appear in civilian life...
History is not going to judge music by its original environment or function, however much these factors influenced its creation. When a great musician has lived and breathed a certain style of music, doing as much as he can with its latent possibilities, the result will be art whether it hails from Vienna or the other side of the tracks. No "classicist" in his right mind would fail to recognize jazz, when well done, as art, deserving as much, if not more, respect than many of the patched-up things which, under the name of a Lizst, a Smetana...
...Chamber of Deputies, Socialist Mario Bravo orated for some 90 minutes: "Argentina was always a leading nation. Today we are almost out-counted in the list of American nations . . . [but] there will be a revolution. The causes of revolution are already latent." Radical Deputy Raul Damonte Taborda, bitter enemy of the Axis fifth column in Argentina, joined with Bravo, and together their two parties forced through the Chamber resolutions demanding: 1) a diplomatic break with the Axis (67-to-64); 2) fulfillment of hemispheric accords reached at the Rio de Janeiro conference in January...
...precipitating factor," warn doctors and parents that tonsil operations are dangerous during the poliomyelitis season (summer and fall), even though the disease "is not notably prevalent in a community." Probable connection between tonsillectomies and poliomyelitis: nerves injured by surgery are more susceptible to polio infection, so that the latent virus could travel readily from the injured throat nerves to the medulla oblongata, where the spinal cord enters the brain...