Word: latter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mental as for bodily ills is sound. The scientific spirit dictates that manias and complexes have discoverable causes as truly as cramps and aches. But the challenge of science is now directed chiefly at the theorists and experimenters. And whatever their pretense, practitioners must be classed in the latter category...
Because of the great importance of religion in Maya life the members of our expedition were not surprised to find that most of the buildings in the seven ruined cities we discovered were temples or edifices devoted to religious purposes. Under the latter heading, of course, would come tombs, observatories, monasteries and nunneries. One of the most interesting buildings Dr. Spinden and I found at Okop, a building that is now a mass of stone, 45 feet high 130 feet long and 110 feet wide--with most of its ceilings caved in--was perhaps of the latter category...
Senator Wheeler, who led the attack on Mr. Daugherty when the latter was Attorney General, merely said...
...Junior boat pulled away in the lead at the start of the race, but soon fell behind the powerful Senior outfit. The latter increased its lead to a whole length and held it until the last 300 yards of the mile and three quarters course...
...professor of architectural construction and in the latter year became associate professor of architecture, becoming a full professor of architecture two years ago. In 1918 he, was made, in addition, Chairman of the Council of the School of Architecture...