Word: latter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Resignation? A new sponge must always be soaked before using or its fibres may scratch the hand that uses it and the surface it is intended to clean. The question last week in Washington was: did Secretary Mellon put such a thorough damper on Assistant Secretary Lowman that the latter might soon resign...
...release from prison, reporters (men who remembered waiting to see him outside the Governor's office) flocked to greet him. They found him sad and thin, his face grooved with prison despair. He had been ill most of the latter months in jail; he had taught in the prison Sunday school; had edited Good Words, the prison newsmagazine; never, during his sentence, did Warren T. McCray, a proud man, allow his wife or any member of his family to visit him. When told of his parole, the one-time Governor had wept for a few minutes and then...
Leading candidates in the elections, which take place in the middle of next year: General Alvaro Obregon, General Arnulfo Gomez, General Francisco Serrano, the latter two of whom, it is hinted, may decide to join forces against General Obregon...
...McAndrew had complied, saying, yes, the duties of teacher-clerks are predominantly educational. They assist the school principals in supervising classroom work; they interview parents, help with home work, aid discipline and even, when needed, teach classes. Their positions used to be filled by civil service clerks but the latter were removed in 1909 precisely because the positions called for persons trained in the teaching profession. Mr. McAndrew's testimony strenuously favored the teacher-clerks against the school board...
...game is hard on men and mounts. The latter are changed every period; usually the favorite mounts playing the first and seventh periods; another favorite the second and eighth; other mounts one each...