Word: latter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...school children will have school hours reduced from six to three per day by listening to a talkie "educator" instead of to a teacher. Mr. Fox also planned to take talkies of famed surgeons at work and to distribute to churches pictures of religious leaders. The latter move Cineman Fox explained "on the theory that every man, woman and child will be a finer citizen if a God-fearing...
...appeal that it immediately "sold" Daniel Guggenheim on aviation, resulted in the elder Guggenheim himself establishing the now famed $2,500,000 Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics. It was as president of this Fund that Harry Guggenheim met Charles Augustus Lindbergh just before the latter's Atlantic flight. After Col. Lindbergh's return from Paris, the Fund made him its Technical Advisor and promoted his state-to-state cross-country junket. Current Fund activities include experimental work in fog-flying and a $100,000 competition for the safest airplane...
When Henry VIII died, Elizabeth, 13, continued living with his widow, Katherine Parr, even after the latter had married Sir Thomas Seymour. Katherine and Seymour tickled Elizabeth awake in the mornings, but the wife finally grew jealous and ousted her. Katherine died in childbirth. Seymour was executed, charged with proposing marriage to Princess Elizabeth without young King Edward's consent. Finding herself under suspicion, the 15-year-old Princess craftily sought to prove herself not pregnant by offering to go "to the court . . . that I may show myself there as I am." Intrigues threw her in jail whence...
...Broadbent '32 and D. M. Frame '32 were the individual stars of the contest, the former scoring three, and the latter two of the victors' points. Cullen was stellar light for Bridge-water, making one of his team's two tallies. The other was scored on a mis-kick by a Harvard player...
...Second University Soccer team will open its saeson today when it opposes the M. I. T. team in an informal scrimmage in the latter's home field...