Word: latter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interest in botany, for which it has a second international reputation. And upon its central field it has driven through to fundamental strata. It has pondered the ineluctable problem of Law, the body of popular custom opposed to Law, the rational phenomenon. It has resolved in favor of the latter conception - "Law is a practical matter" - and it seeks to root out the arbitrary, the illogical, the instinctive. It realizes that "the great source of friction is human wilfulness, and the great cause of waste is insecurity," but it believes that, within the limits of intellection, law can become...
...last General Motors, which for seven years has owned 60% of Fisher Body stock (TIME, May 10), will have full possession of the latter. Last week Fisher Body minority stockholders decided to trade in on the basis of one and a half of their shares for one G. M. share...
...story stumbles and lurches back to Lanesburg. Matured by his flaying at Irontown and believed to be a man of property, Abner becomes involved in the operations of Railroad Jones. The latter, obese, unlettered but wily beyond compare, plays an elusive role, now angel, now devil, but always a hero for the ingenuity of his countless victories at law and his unrivaled wealth. Possessed of an astonishing "rickollection" and pioneer shrewdness, he harps on the folly of tainting man's natural intelligence with education. He has a daughter, Adelaide, highly modernized by upstate schooling, with whom Abner...
...amalgamation of the Debating Union with the Harvard Union comes after the latter's most successful and the former's most dismal season. It has long been hoped that those behind the Debating Union could contrive to attract the members of the University continually and consistently. With many optimistic fits and starts they have made little actual headway. Evidently, by itself, the Debating Union was destined to remain an attractive idea...
...college; Nicholas Kelley '06, formerly Assistant Secretary of Treasury, and also President of the CRIMSON as an undergraduate, Professor J. H. Woods '87, of the Philosophy Department; Dean C. N. Greenough '98; and assistant Deans R. E. Bacon '18, Ellio Perkins '21, and E. A. Whitney '17. The latter is also a CRIMSON man and was President of the paper in his Senior year...