Word: latter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plank in the least vexing or important. This was handled by permitting T. E. Cushman of the American Farm Bureau Federation to join the agricultural subcommittee. Notable were omission of any attack upon the protective tariff and an implied promise to enforce the 15th Amendment (votes for Negroes). The latter, coming from the pen of Carter Glass of Virginia, was accepted as conventional flub...
...latter commission they were, as had been predicted, unable to fulfill because none of the efforts submitted seemed entirely adequate. The grand prize of $10,000 offered by the Columbia Phonograph Company they could and did award-to one Kurt M. Atterberg, 40, of Sweden, for his Symphony in C Major...
...everyone knows, Ambassador Herrick carried this latter proposal personally from French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand to U. S. Secretary of State Kellogg (TIME, July 4). The refusal of Mr. Kellogg to sit down to diplomatic tea for two with M. Briand and his subsequent invitation to all nations to sign a multi-power pact has constituted one of the most distasteful rebuffs suffered by French diplomacy since...
...pleased to note since the latter part of 1926 that the spokesmen of the Powers have expressed their willingness to negotiate new equal treaties...
...heard him preach half a century ago, when he spoke of the difference between a man's falling within his resolution and outside of it. The former is a conscious fault; recognized by the man as such, which he thoroughly regrets and resolves not to commit again; the latter an excused fault, condoned by himself, and therefore likely to be repeated. Such a fault may be small, but small faults gradually dim the keenness of discrimination between right' and wrong. Well did the old testament singer exclaim, "Take us the foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vines...