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Word: latter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...since. Same old songs of self-pity and sacrifice, patting their selves on the back because they have records to show they spent two dollars on a soldier. Compiling the records was clever and their other stories are as interesting as Hans C. Andersen's but, like the latter's, was meant for children. Why study mass-psychology to find out why -Obscenity deleted. the Y charged six francs for cigarettes when the army canteen across the street charged five? At Montfalcon they even charged a wounded man (stretcher case) for cigarettes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 18, 1929 | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

Editors and news folk generally were informed last week, by representatives of the Holy See, in what terms they are to couch stories about the Pope and the Vatican, now the former has resumed temporal sovereignty and the latter has become a state (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: No Politics Allowed | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...passes it off with the thought that his attitude at the end of college is going to be more important to him than his undergraduate attitude. And he would be wise to spend his time in doing things to develop the former rather than waste it in analyzing the latter. One has only to picture the fate of any poor man who set out to discover exactly why he came to college. If he were lucky he might escape with nothing worse than a complete nervous collapse, and it is certain that he would not succeed in satisfying himself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HIS NOT TO REASON WHY | 3/16/1929 | See Source »

...There is no correlation between honesty of children's actions and their attendance or non-attendance at Sunday school. In general children coming from private schools were found to cheat less than those from public schools, but this is no indictment against the latter institutions: It is merely a statement of fact regarding the actions of the average child. Furthermore, pupils in progressive schools cheat less on the average than those in conventional schools...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 3/14/1929 | See Source »

...battle royal between undergraduates and alumni has set the Cornell campus agog. When a distinguished group of the latter faction recently met in take measures for the regeneration of football at Cornell, they were surprised to find the general sentiment of the student body opposed to their efforts. The Cornell Sun explained the attitude of the students by saying that "the undergraduates don't have any athletic teams any more. They belong to the alumni and the big-salaried coach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WAR AT CORNELL | 3/14/1929 | See Source »

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