Word: latter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Leadership . . . unafraid" it was, since Mr. Brookhart is now preparing to oppose his former colleague, regular Mr. Cummins, for reelection, and the latter may lose on that account...
...Joseph Smith's Latter Day Saints (Mormons) today number but 625,160 in the U. S. Of Mary Baker Glover Eddy's Christian Science Churches in the U. S. there are 1,879. In the U. S. alone there are over 9,000,000 Methodists, Wesleyans...
...finding him, not unaccompanied, in bed. He was a friend of Whistler, whose charm had an immense influence upon him and whose acid humor was not unlike his own. He drank wine with Andrew Lang; he knew Edmund Gosse and F. Hopkinson Smith, "whose books," he said of the latter, "I never could stand?or the sight of him either." Then he came back to America and began work on the etchings of forges, skyscrapers, workshops, mills, excavations, cities, that made him famous...
...gathering had also to referee the second round of a bitter fight between powerful Publisher Hearst and spunky Publisher Frank E. Gannett of Rochester, N. Y. The latter's newspaper, the Times-Union, competes most successfully with the Hearstian Rochester Journal and Post-Express. Knowing that he could serve his readers better and compete still more successfully, Publisher Gannett sought, two years ago, to enroll his Times-Union in the Associated Press and bring into its columns the swift, unmuddied current of news that the A. P. pumps from all parts of the U. S. and the rest...
College athletes last week congregated in two places?westerners in Des Moines, Ia., for the annual Drake Relay Carnival; easterners on Franklin Field, Philadelphia, for the annual Penn Relays. The latter meet was notable for no world's records. Yale took two championships? the half-mile varsity and one-mile freshman relays. Columbia won the two-mile varsity relay. Anthony J. Plansky, herculean Georgetown Universityite, retained his decathlon championship with a new meet record of 7,169.16 points for the ten events?100-meter dash, shot-put, high jump, broad jump, 400-meter run, 110-meter hurdles, discus throw, pole...