Word: latter
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...this time Mikkola was undecided as to whether he should resume his former profession as a technical engineer or become a professional coach. However, upon receiving an offer from Harvard he decided to take the latter course and since that time he has been coach in the weight events and of the cross country runners here...
Lafayette College (Easton, Pa.) announced its acquisition of a president, which it had lacked since the resignation of Dr. John H. McCracken. Lafayette had secured the services of Dr. William Mather Lewis, vigorous, eloquent chief of George Washington University (Washington, D. C.). To the latter, a typical city institution, Dr. Lewis had taken (in 1923) that executive ability which had previously, in Wartime, put him in charge of the national commission of patriotic societies and, later, of the Savings Division of the U. S. Treasury (to sell Thrift Stamps). To Lafayette, an institution one-fifth the size of George Washington...
Connell characters, as perfect and unreal as fashion advertisements, achieve life by the sheer velocity of their improbable actions. The Prince reappears in this novel precisely that way, deus ex machina. He modestly accepts a hand-knitted sweater from Hero Gerald Shannon, thereby enabling the latter to become a Self-Made Man and town-builder back in Ireland, as broad Kevin Shannon, his father, had been in the U. S. How might that be? By the same token that Gerald Shannon chances to hang his shoes on the chandelier and trousers in the tub, and to take a circus troupe...
...latter part of the week of March, 21 was selected as the time for the hearing of ten students and Arthur Clement sentenced for participation in the Harvard square "riot" before the Middlesex Surperior Criminal Court, when they were arranged before Judge Broadhurst yesterday. The defendants were held in $100 ball each, and all pleaded not guilty...
...given by one of the Eskimos that on crossing between the floating masses of ice, Marvin missed his footing and plunged into the water. Last year the Eskimo repudiated this entire explanation and declared that he was the murderer himself. Although great publicity was given to this episode, the latter story was never accepted by any of Marvin's companions. Captain Bartlett believes that the Eskimo suffered some mental derangement because of the perils which he underwent and then sought notoriety for himself by giving a villainous reputation...