Word: latter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reel '28, president of the Harvard Debating Club, announced yesterday that the debate with an English University team originally scheduled for the latter part of the month has been postponed until December...
...continue, proclaimed the President, beginning October 9. ¶ Mrs. Coolidge went forth into the marts of fashion and bought $1,000 worth of gowns. The sales persons described her taste not merely as "suitable" but with the more glowing adjectives "smart," "gay," "distinguished." ¶ President and Mrs. Coolidge, the latter in emerald green chiffon and a white satin wrap with white furry collar, helped make the opening of the new Fox Cinema Theatre, largest in town, a gala affair by attending. Legislators and diplomats aplenty were in the house, but what most pleased President William Fox of the Fox Film...
...Roots, Hugheses, Hoovers and other traitors to the country." The latter were said to have "practically wrecked the Harding administration...
Both Kelley and Burns played football at Exeter, the former being somewhat obscured in the academy ranks after a brilliant career at Winchester High, while the latter never attained first string rating among his schoolboy teammates. The possibilities of either as a first string college pilot are very difficult to predict. Close followers of the sport for the last few years have been surprised this year to see Kelley holding down the team A assignment. The coaches have so far made no comment on the quarterback situation and the purport of the reports that have proceeded from the scrimmages...
...bureau, seeing that the applicant's character, circumstances and attainments have been investigated to exhaustion before his admission to the university. But the bureau files must be fed with questionnaires more and more and more inquisitive, according to "The Crimson," under threats of blacklisting the applicants; the latter must now, as the latest requirement, file pictures of themselves and a budget of their year's income and proposed expenditures. Whoever has been wound in coils of bureaucratic tape will sympathize with the Harvard newspaper's suggestion that the employment office assume "some Harvard indifference. Indifference to what...