Word: latter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...list of the popular English writers of the day would show more college men than non-collegians," declared Mr. Ellsworth, "but among the latter are many whose books we like: Arnold Bennett, Gilbert Chesterton, William Black, Joseph Conrad, Rider Haggard, John Masefield, George More, Eden Phillotts, Israel Zangwell, and Bernard Shaw. H. G. Wells took honors in zoology in a college of science; Robert Hichens attended a college of music; Thomas Hardy acquired an education at evening classes in King's College, London; Kipling went to the United Service College, not an institution famous for turning out literati George Bernard...
Last week regular Republicans could no longer hope to control the Senate. It is barely possible that the next Senate will show a Democratic majority. But almost certainly the regular Republicans plus the insurgent Republicans will be a majority, thus giving to the latter the balance of power...
...Today Germany enters the circle of States to some of which she has been attached by untroubled ties of friendship whereas others were allied against her during the Great War. It surely is an event of historical importance that Germany and these latter States are now brought together within the League of Nations for permanent and pacific cooperation...
...James A. Burden, who had the honor to place his Long Island home at the disposal of Edward of Wales during the latter's visit...
...happens that Mr. Wells will be 60 next Tuesday. It happens that his character, William Clissold, enunciates a prodigious amount of Wellsian philosophy. But the "vulgar" reader and reviewer are asked to understand that the book is not Mr. Wells' autobiography, but William Clissold's. The latter is merely a "relative" of Mr. Wells, a mineralogist whose promoter-father committed suicide on the way to prison, leaving the mother free to remarry and the boys, William and Dickon Clissold, to make their own lives...