Word: latter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Interpretive dancing, requires vigorous training while the dancer is a child between the ages of five and 15, and latter constant work in between performances. This necesity for training dancers while they are young raises a great many complications, for a child's parents are unwilling to allow it to go without an education. In order to avoid this trouble we hope to start a school at which regular school work can be combined with training in dancing...
...party, which will start the latter part of June to be gone two months, will include, besides himself, a Swiss guide, two Indians, and two cooks. They will have to make their way into the district which is to be the scene of their operations over rough and unexplored mountainous regions, and it is probable that the trail for the last 14 miles or so will have to be opened by blasting through the ice. This portion of the Jaspar National Park, which includes in its boundaries about 4000 square miles, includes 20 unclimbed peaks, all over 10,000 feet...
...write under a false address, or disguised, to pay a visit to these evildoers. This led to mistakes but the method was not without value. It was Anthony Cornstock who decoyed the notorious Madame Restell to jail and then drove her to kill herself. When he heard of the latter event, the reformer said, "A bloody ending to a bloody life." While he was not alone in his campaigns, few associates went all the way with him. Most of his contemporaries in fact, detested him. "The spirit that lighted the fires of the Inquisition," wrote Ezra Heywood, eccentric socialist, victim...
...Schoppenhauer to its logical and extreme conclusion. All in all, the figure of Wagner is gigantic not only in music, where he is supreme, but also in literature where he looms large in the field of the drama being without much doubt the greatest German dramatist of the latter part of the last century. One might do worse than go to Professor Hill's lecture...
Asked to compare the effect of chemicals with that of the airplane. General Fries said. "In warfare there are two distinct branches; one a carrier and one a destroyer. Chemicals and explosives are listed under the latter, while airplanes and zeppelins are classed under the former. Airplanes have been used and will be used as transporters of explosives, and of course, for this use they are unexcelled. However, it is impossible to compare airplanes with chemicals in their respective abilities of killing the enemy because neither can be effective without the other; they are each dependent on the other...