Word: latter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recent squash match between the deans of University Hall and the officials of the H. A. A., the latter won the laurels by a margin of one game, which the H. A. A. champions took by default...
...former left his entire fortune of some $5,000,000 to endow a hospital for crippled children. Now the latter has created a trust to administer his, variously estimated as high as $40,000,000 or $50,000,000, in the interest of mankind generally...
...wife, a charwoman, is suspected of the theft; but before the case reaches court, it becomes obvious that the true culprit is vapid young John Barthwick Jr. who, in a state of supreme inebriation, had been assisted into his father's home by Mr. Jones, thereby allowing the latter the opportunity for his theft. The last act, a trial scene, allows rich young Barthwick to go unpunished for this and more serious misdemeanors while Mr. Jones is sentenced to a month of hard labor...
...only the education that the common schools afford. After the decision of the Supreme Court of the Commonwealth had disallowed the combination with the Massachusetts institute of Technology, the School of Engineering was again reorganized, this time for both undergraduate and graduate work, and it is perhaps in the latter that the School can render its most valuable service to the community. There are plenty of schools giving excellent undergraduate training, but few have the advantages that are found here for graduate work...
...first floor. Hearing strange noises in the study he picked up a bedroom slipper and clad in his pink pajamas ventured from the sanctity of his Doudoir. He came fact to face with a slim, dark, foreign man with a strong breath and an unsteady gait. The latter said he was looking for the man in the suite next door whose available cash he had just appropriated. The youth in the pajamas was not to be fooled however. When he lifted his bedroom slipper threateningly, the mysterious marauder ran out of the room, narrowly escaping the hurled article of apparel...