Word: latter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pacifier in Nicaragua, to be governor-general of the Philippines (see THE CABINET). He forced the resignation of William S. Hill of South Dakota from the U. S. Shipping Board by appointing Albert H. Denton, Kansas banker, as successor. The President was vexed with Mr. Hill because the latter had indiscreetly accepted a loan from a member of a private shipping concern. Then there was the new $725,000,000 Navy program. See ARMY & NAVY) to be finally approved. And the administration tax program was being knocked out of joint by the House of Representatives (see THE CONGRESS). President Coolidge...
...taken to task for its book censorship troubles or its feeling against cracked ice in night clubs. Yet Dr. Potter confesses no personal bias. He spoke of addressing school children and Rotary clubs, and finding that his material had to be graded down from the former to the latter. He spoke of the idealism of America, and the effect the names of Lindbergh and Lincoln have in arousing it. He recounted his telling to the Chamber of Commerce of Columbus, Ohio, that they should import some foreigners to raise the cultural standards. In short he seems to have covered...
This affliction has been coincident with the glad Christmas festival since the latter observance arrogated so much time to itself, and it is greeted with a succession of gutterals even in those class rooms where the practise is frowned upon. Its debilitating influence on colds makes the catching of them merely nominal. In reality they lie at one's feet for the making. Now an open window means an absorbing flow of mucus. Wet feet provoke an interesting condition wherein the brain becomes remote from the sensual world, an aching entity in which the weariest efforts of the will...
...flesh, there appeared on the newsstands hereabouts Saturday night a new Boston paper, the Sunday Telegram, edited by the lately released Mr. Enwright. He will be remembered as the gentleman who was charged with libel when he referred to the prison term of a Boston Mayor. The latter, Mr. Curley, with ironic humor, saw that he was put in jail, with the implication that it might be a glass house where one could break stones and not throw them. But Mr. Enwright was not cast down, and arose Prometheus like with his sickly pinkish paper which is an avowed attempt...
...latter part of Mr. Lane's comment is an excellent statement of the liberal policies of circulation which the Library has maintained. The confidence in general honesty displayed by the authorities has in a large measure been responsible for the efficient service of the institution. Having been granted a certain freedom the average student feels more or less obliged to prove himself worthy of the bequest. A further test of his worthiness will be found in the post-holiday weeks...