Word: latter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mercantile Co., director of the Deseret National Bank, director of the Deseret Savings Bank, member of the World War Foreign Debt Commission, president of the Electric Co. (of Provo, Utah), regent of the Smithsonian Institution, president of the Smoot Investment Co., Apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, is a man of substance and consistency. Last week, as he arrived in Florida to see Mr. Hoover, he declared for "general and liberal upward revision of the tariff to maintain Republican prosperity...
...Harkness gift to Yale which took away from Harvard the latter's famed 47 workshop, a playwriting part of the Fine Arts College embodied in Professor George Pierce Baker. Now another Harkness gift, declined by Yale, is going to refashion Harvard's most ancient and central aspect, oldtime Harvard College, to which the university's graduate schools are comparatively recent and traditionally minor adjuncts. Beneath the Lampoon's youthful vulgarity and ink-intoxicated rudeness there seemed to be a note of genuine bitterness which, since Harvard men are often sad, may have adumbrated some portion of adult Harvard sentiment...
...tons. Consumption has so closely equalled production that on Dec. i, reserve stocks of refined copper were down to 52,153 tons-less than a two-week supply. Nearly every U. S. copper refinery is running at capacity, domestic demand shows no lessening, and though exports declined during the latter part of 1928 it is believed that the present year will see a considerable increase in foreign buying...
...books, dog stories are probably the least fruitful of results for a reviewer. Readers are divided up into the more or less air-tight groups of those that like them and those that do not, and by now the latter have already turned to another article. For the benefit of the others, "Bugle" is one of the better dog stories. It deals with the adventures attendant upon the life of a hunting dog in the wilder regions of the West, and there is no lack of action in the incidents leading up to a stirring climax in the fight with...
Scott Burbank '29 and H. C. Adamson will appear among the specialty performers, the former with a novel instrument act with cornet, xylophone and drums, while the latter will deliver various short monologues and imitations...