Word: latter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...about the recent fall of prices on the New York Stock Exchange. 2) That he expected a favorable outcome in the negotiations with Mexico over the application of their new agrarian laws. 3) That he wanted to see the Shipping Board and the Emergency Fleet Corporation divorced and the latter put under a single head for reasons of efficiency, but he did not care whether the head of the Government merchant fleet is responsible to him or to Congress; until Congress clears up the situation he will not fill the present vacancy on the Shipping Board. 4) That Congress could...
...Kelly does not strive for superficial humour; it is here out-of-place. Mirth ripples through the lines, but it is of the sort that provokes internal laughter and the delighted eye, not the yokel's guffaw. Whenever Mr. Kelly courts the latter, he fumbles. One cannot help but feel that on the opening night the dead flop of these lines must have caused him chagrin and that he may have learned a well-pointed lesson...
...clock, before the University meet, the 1929 grapplers will engage the Blue first-year men. The Yale Freshman team has had a successful season having defeated the Brown Freshmen, Andover and Blair, and tied Choate. The latter has one of the strongest school teams in New England. The Crimson Freshmen after their recent victories over Brown and Springfield expect, in spite of the strength of the Blue team, to make a strong bid for victory...
...agelessness of Asia, there has appeared scarcely another novelist whose taste for the exotic mystery of much infinities has carven a readable story. Quite in this older, manner Mr. Merritt has harked back to Ancient Babylon and spun an interesting and curious, if not so successful, fantasy. Unfortunately the latter's hero makes his first blow in a luxurious apartment in contemporary New York and after demolishing an archeological monolith from Babylon, is whisked back a score of centuries without the slightest warning. He finds himself on a fated galley, the Ship of Ishtar, peopled with two hostile factions factions...
...Hasty Pudding Club and the Union will give their respective spring dances this evening, the former in the club house and the latter in the Living-Room of the Union...