Word: latter
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Confederacy" and "The Ku Klux Movement." The last two essays, "A New Hero of an Old Type" and "Shifting the White Man's Burden," treat more recent subjects; the former showing how the new South has contributed to our list of heroes in the war with Spain, the latter touching on the problem of the gradual disfranchisement of the southern negro...
...policy which the Directors persuaded the Society to endorse at the last annual meeting. The Directors hold that they should consider not only the rate of dividend declared upon the purchases made by the members, but also the comfort and convenience of the members, so far as the latter depend upon the efficiency of the body of persons employed in the Society's stores. To secure this contemplated improvement in the personnel, the Society will have to pay better salaries than it has paid in the past. It may be that the immediate effect of the new policy will...
...chief objections under the latter head is that the stockholders will be all-powerful, and the members "will get merely what privileges are conceded to them by the stockholders." It has further been stated that "the stockholders proposed are not satisfactory," because they are not men "associated with large and successful business enterprises...
...reports from the engineers who have been holding conferences for the past month in connection with the proposed dam across the Charles River will probably be presented to the committee the latter part of this week. The expert engineers have been examined by Mr. J.R. French of Providence, who has recently been appointed head of the water works in New York. The petition that the time be extended has been granted by the State Committee on metropolitan affairs, so that the report of the Dam Commission will not be presented until the next session of the legislature...
...this way for a mile and a half the two eights side by side fought up the Severn against tide and wind. Occasionally, the Annapolis crew would creep up on the Weld, and then a short spurt by the latter would again leave them them eight or ten feet behind. Throughout, the Naval Academy crew rowed several points higher than the Weld, but at no time did they lead...