Word: latter-day
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...supplied out of a New York hillside called Cumorah. Therein it was set forth that two tribes had shipped direct to America from the Tower of Babel. The presence of Red Indians in America "proved" this. Joseph Smith Jr. had been commissioned the Lord's special and prophetic latter-day representative to re-establish Mor- monism...
...marbles together, went to Art School together, married, left the U. S. for Paris, there joined a group which has turned from Cubism, Imagism, Analysm, back to the vibrant humanity of the Renaissance. In the Autumn Salon in Paris, this group routed their loud rivals. Much was murmured about latter-day Renaissance. Encouraged, Feitelson, Newking, brought to the U. S. their pictures, which cleverly reproduce an old and gracious tradition...
Stirred from the lethargy of 25 years, Congress recently passed a resolution, appropriated $40,000 for the completion and restoration of the frieze. Last week, the Joint Committee on the Library sat to determine what latter-day pioneers will fill the remaining space...
...proud and hazardous times of bad Eliphalet. His novel is too neat in pattern, too nervous in action, to find a place in the three-masted, damn-your-eyes tradition of sea-fiction which Captain Marryat, Cooper, Melville and, later, R. L. Stevenson adorned; but it affects, with latter-day sprightliness, the manner of that tradition. It is meritorious for being a good story, and one more addition to the increasing amount of literal which seeks to convince the skept sons of Colonial Dames that the U. S. has a past...
...years, Dr. Veader Leonard and a group of confreres in the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, have worked with poisons-salts, acids, fats, with blue canisters of strange mineral, with bottles of green, fatal syrup. They sought that latter-day elixir, a fluid deadly to germs, harmless to man, a perfect antiseptic. Last week, came the announce- ment that they had found and tested such a germicide-hexylresorcinol, 50 times as powerful as carbolic acid...