Word: lates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their general headquarters, where a "general staff" of young officers, lent by the 8th Route (former Communist) Army, veteran Manchurian fighters and college students plan widespread attacks, the Associated Pressman discovered their well-thumbed textbook on guerrilla warfare: a translation of The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, by the late famed Lieut.-Colonel T. E. Lawrence of Arabia...
...thousand women and children were knocked unconscious and eleven were killed last week in the scramble of 300,000 of Istanbul's inhabitants to get a look into the open coffin of the late President Kamal Atatürk. Vowing to follow her foster father to the grave, Flight Lieutenant Sahiba Gokçen, Turkish woman army flier, fasted in Istanbul's Dolmabaghche Palace, was later persuaded by physicians to pull herself together and leave for Ankara, the capital...
...coast-to-coast collection of 81 players on his varsity squad, 42 of whom were captains of their prep-school or high-school football teams. Starting the season with 177 varsity candidates, he weeded them out until he had three complete teams, any one of which the late, great Knute Rockne, his teacher, might have been proud of. Victor over Kansas, Georgia Tech, Illinois, Carnegie Tech, Army, Navy and Minnesota on successive Saturdays, last week Notre Dame added Northwestern to its string-and incidentally exhibited a substitute quarterback named Willard Hofer who scored all nine points...
...skin, "may be a 'photographic-like process' of 'exposure' and 'development,' with the sex hormone acting to 'develop' color-lacking material laid down in the skin by exposure [to the sun]. . . . This 'developing' action may be exerted as late as five months after exposure...
...Whiteman. But the power behind King Whiteman's throne was a bland, easy-spoken, Manhattan-born Californian named Ferdinand Rudolph von Grofe. As Whiteman's arranger. Ferde Grofe dressed up many a sleazy Tin Pan Alley Cinderella and made it the belle of the ball. Even the late George Gershwin's renowned Rhapsody in Blue was a mere sketch until Grofe got hold...