Word: latter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator came to Mr. Underwood's support either in exposition of the game of draw poker or with a good word for cloture. So far as the present Congress is concerned, the latter matter may be regarded as closed...
...Communists deemed the Fascists hogs because the latter demand the return to members of the German nobility of property seized from them by the German Republic. The Fascists flayed the "Communist robbers" because they are whooping up German voters to ballot, on June 20, in a national referendum (TIME, Feb. 15 et seq.) which-if 20,000,000 votes are cast-will confirm and legalize the Republic's seizures of property. In the Prussian Landtag, both Communists and Fascists grunted and howled when Herr Hőpker-Aschoff, Prussian Minister of Finance, attempted an "impartial" speech as follows: "While...
Dime store business (not to be confused with many other types of chain stores) is increasing much more than is the business of department stores. Thus the latter's sales are only one-third greater than they were in 1919, whereas those of their unpretentious competitors have doubled in the past 17 years (Department of Commerce Index...
...service rendered Mr. Smith by his sales managers in that it kept strictly in the realm of ideas. For this ideational service Mr. Smith was glad to pay Lord & Thomas 15% more than Lord & Thomas had to pay the newspapers and magazines that published the advertisements, and the latter were not grieved to see Lord & Thomas pocketing the 15%-which would have been in their publishing treasuries had Mr. Smith written and placed his messages unassisted- because in the long run Lord & Thomas would probably egg Mr. Smith on to do more advertising than he would have done uncounseled...
Again will the latter gentleman kindly inform me who has been and who is advocating that "revered word is meant those narrow, dogmatic views which condemn those who do not conform, which are founded on and thrive on superstition fear and ignorance, and the devotees of which feel it their duty to show their piety by publicly kow-towing at the behest of some dervish who prates, the while about glory, salvation...