Word: latter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wage cut. The operators will certainly not take kindly to a complete reorganization of the industry. Finally all these groups will be tempted to keep the subsidy in force and to let matters drift, at the taxpayer's expense. Politicians of ripe experience opined last week that this latter course, dangerous though it is, seems likely to be pursued for some time to come. To cut short the subsidy and risk a general strike was widely declared to be a gesture beyond Mr. Baldwin's political reach...
...country village with a vagrant show troupe. There he finds his daughter, born 20 years before from a mother native of the village. The play then argues whether she shall stay among the whiskered rurals or set out on lifelong wanderings among the theatres. She does the latter. Ruth Nugent is this girl, pleasantly enough...
...Xray. The X-ray is extremely penetrating, throws shadows of the anatomy on suitably placed photographic films, which the physician may study for better diagnosis. To get such a photograph the patient is exposed to the rays for only some seconds. Prolonged exposure causes. destruction of tissue. So this latter phenomenon physicians use to devitalize cancerous growths-and on the ovaries to bring on artificial menopause...
...carried out by the permanent offices of the C. I. E. At the present time there are such permanent offices in Brussels where the central office is located and in London, where is placed the main office of the Travel Department with a continental branch in Paris. The latter was instituted especially for the convenience of the American tours which are to take place this summer. The Commission of Sports is in Paris: the Bureau of Scientific Motion Picture Films in Zurich, and a Bureau of exchange of books and publications in Warsaw...
...slightest spark may ignite the magazine and precipitate serious riots. On the other hand the police of Lodi and Garfield do not oppose the strikers. On the contrary, they march alongside the parades and clear the traffic for them. There has been no violence or ill feeling in these latter towns. What a contrast to the stupid methods of Passaic and Clifton where reporters are assaulted, where strikers are sent to jail for thirty days for swearing, although the police wear no haloes, and where the chief of police should be arrested for assult and battery. There is an obvious...