Word: latter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hoped that the negotiations will be resumed, but it would be better for the Americans to come to Paris. It isn't the rule for a debtor to run after a creditor, purse in hand, while the latter dodges...
...first game of the season against Clan Lindsay was won after a hard struggle by a score of 1 to 0 while Amherst held the University to a one point tie. The latter game, however, can hardly be considered a criterion of the team's strength as it was played under very poor weather conditions. University Cornell Thomas, g g., Dake Tarnowsky, l.f.b. l.f.b., Chapman McKinnon (Captain), r.f.b. r.f.b., Marein Wickersham, l.h.b. l.h.b., Tonkonogy Rubin, c.h.b. c.h.b., Ivanoff Carr, r.h.b. r.h.b., Bamman Gherardi, o.r. o.r., Kreiger Crooks, i.r. i.r., Bacon Wright, c. c. Bowdish (Captain) Trevvett, i.l. i.l. McCrohan Driggs...
...phrase: arbitrary separation of what should be joined. We separate the library from the living room, the activities from the studies, the teacher from the student; we separate the undergraduate from the graduate, so that the former is apt to be too youthfully irresponsible and the latter too serious and professional: we separate one department of knowledge from another: finally we separate education from life itself, so that when the college course is over we abandon books and serious discussion and lapse into a life of mere business, estranged from the world's intellectual heritage...
...Dunworth attacked both of the noted English spiritists, Sir Oliver Lodge and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and accused the latter of making a great deal of money through his lectures "in which he knowingly perpetrates fraudulent spirit-photography, and at the same time makes the statement that 'Spiritualism is the only hope of world salvation...
...large gap lies between spiritualism and psychic phenomena," says Mr. Dunworth. "We are not certain but that the latter is possible. Still, under this guise, much trickery is perpetrated. The difference between magicians and those who claim they can communicate with the spirits, is that the ormer admit the presence of fraud and deception. When spiritualists cannot readily produce their occult messages, they will turn to trickery, instead of postponing the seance to another time, which is sufficient proof of their inability...