Word: latter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...point out that Leprosy is not only treated with chaulmoogra-oil, but also with gold compounds. This treatment has been introduced after the experiences gained by that of tuberculosis on a similar base, to which latter disease, Leprosy is related...
Peru. An advance welcome has been sent to Guayaquil by airplane from President Agusto B. Leguia of Peru, the latter's picture and a portrait of James (Doctrine) Monroe were hung together...
Quaking, Trembling. Only a few years before the religious maidens landed at Boston, when England was in a state of great religious unrest, the Society of Friends came into being under the leadership of George Fox (1624-91), an itinerant preacher whose personal habits approached those of a latter-day John the Baptist. Once he walked barefoot through the streets on market day crying, "Woe to the bloody city of Lichfield...
...sculptor once portrayed Art Young with one side of his face crying, the other side laughing. The object of both these emotions in Art Young is the world, not himself. About the latter he entertains chiefly a healthy curiosity, a self-respecting skepticism. Like most artists, he finds the money thing the most troublesome, but like few he has learned this general truth: "Nature never composes a scene just right for an artist. Even a mountain must be shifted to one side...
...Lima Locomotive Works, Inc. The Lima company is so much smaller than the other two that the locomotive industry is often thought of in terms only of American Locomotive and Baldwin. All three companies are running at far below capacity (the Lima plant, indeed, shut down temporarily during the latter part...