Word: latterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poultry eggs hatch out on the same day, nay, the same hour as their siblings [May 27]. It is all very wonderful to know the embryo can "click" prior to hatching, but I am skeptical of the click's effectiveness in communicating the time of emergence. The latter is based entirely on the period of incubation, which is never begun by a smart hen of any of the gallinaceous birds until the entire clutch is laid. Grandmother kept fertile eggs gathered from the poultry yard in a cupboard until she had enough for a "setting," which may have required...
...before in a position to call the turn. When the President announces to the world that he wants aid for Greece, the Congress does not really have complete freedom of action; it can go along with him or repudicate and humiliate him-and it will hesitate to do the latter...
...none other than the cruel 11th century Earl Leofric of Coventry, who according to legend agreed to the pleas of his wife-Lady Godiva-that taxes be reduced, but only if she would ride naked through town. In the light of the new British tax hike by a latter-day Harold (Wilson), some Britons may hope that the Godiva instinct is not dead in the breast of her queenly descendant. Elizabeth, after all, is a fine horsewoman...
...Army's 73 3-5 points in the Heps. Warner took the mile and the two-mile. Hart took the hammer throw, was second in the discus, and fourth in the shot. Seebart won both the shot and the discus, setting a new academy record in the latter event with a 170 ft., 1 in. effort. Kujawski copped the pole vault to repeat his performance in the indoor Heps...
...grades and degrees in this country long ago became a National Neurosis. The 2-S, and the newly-instituted exams, merely accelerate the tendency to equate education with a collection of glittering honors and badges. To foster this disease is the opposite of furthering the national interest, however the latter might be construed...