Word: latter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...over seventy years old, his entire life is devoted to affairs, which he loves with a passion, whether they be great or small: or, rather, there are none for him of this latter class." Indeed, neither business disasters which impaired his fortune, the bitter calumnies of a few political enemies, nor his private grief at the death of his wife and of his son Joseph, worn out in the service, could deter this stalwart patriot from giving the fullest measure of service to the cause in which he had a high and reverend faith...
...have been in close touch with Harvard football for the past four years, three years of playing in a minor role and this past season as coach and scout. I have, in the latter capacity, followed teams other than Harvard somewhat more closely than the average observer...
...high tariff law virtually eliminates the factor of payment in goods by Italy. The new policy which this settlement proposes, therefore, is that as an alternative of cutting our extortionate high tariff to a moderate extent or cutting our foreign debts to a correspondingly greater extent, we adopt the latter course. This policy would, for 62 years, penalize American taxpayers with continued high tariff taxes in the form of increased prices and also with the amount by which the Italian debt has been scaled...
...something under water with an awful shock"; and experts representing the Admiralty were at once despatched to examine the Vidar's slightly damaged hull. They reported that "every circumstance connected with the affair seems to point to a collision between the Vidar and the M-1 when the latter was on the point of rising to the surface...
...therefore, enter into competition with Him. If He has the world as His stage let us transform our stage into a world. This is the only chance of escape we have. We can get away from his Reality by changing it into Unreality first and with the latter as a foundation build up a new reality, a brand new shimmering universe in place of the old and ragged one. This transformation can be accomplished only through the stage breaking away from its present narrow limits and taking all of life as its domain. The actor is to become a crusader...