Word: latter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Four criminal cases were next brought on trial. Fall, Doheny and Sinclair were charged with fraudulent conspiracy against the government. It took two years to bring the case to trial. Fall and Doheny were later accused, the former for receiving, the latter for offering a bribe. The last record of these cases was entered nine months ago. The government, instead of pressing these cases, has dallied with them. Nine months passed; the criminal indictments were thrown out of court. Sinclair was them arrested for the sale of public lands. The indictment was sustained by the Court of Appeals of Washington...
...remedy for this situation. Students should be separated into two groups: those who come to college for intellectual stimulus and to whom elementary restrictions and requirements only serve as checks to further progress; and the who come to college because it is being done. Of necessity the latter will I, treated like "preparatory school students, and will be forced to spend a certain amount of time in the college presumably in study...
Immediately after the selection of the cast and chorus in the latter part of this week, the annual musical production of the Pi Eta Club will go into rehearsal for presentation in the middle of January. Written as usual by undergraduates, the comedy will play three performances in Cambridge and then go on short tours in the neighborhood of Boston...
...authors of these experiments were one Alfred Loomis of Tuxedo Park, N. Y., and Professor Robert W. Wood of Johns Hopkins University. The latter, many a layman recalled, is a genius of wide and varied activities. It was he who devised the method now so common of thawing frozen water pipes by passing electricity through them. Color photography and extensive researches on light have earned him important medals. He has studied secret signaling. He has written diverting fiction as well as three volumes on physical optics. His woodcuts are well-known, especially those illustrating the nonsense rhymes, How to Tell...
...heroine is a practical girl married to a nice but careless ace. The young bridegroom furnishes their apartment with War trophies, one of which explodes at an embarrassing moment while her husband is away, attending to the War. The ruin brings an interior decorator and a Bill, but the latter is not a little boy as the telegram led an eager husband to believe. Parenthood, deferred, synchronizes with more pacific interior decorations. All the explosions are not confined to the screen, for the audience went up in scattering laughs...