Word: latters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dean Westergaard chose not to reply to the question. "Why is the Bureau going to Yale?", as did Maxwell Halsey, assistant director of the Bureau. The latter, however, declared that "there just seem to be more pluses at Yale all the way round...
...congressmen. What will emerge from the conference is hard to predict, for while the Ramspeck bill which has passed the House would give the postmasters life tenure, the Senate version provides for only an eight year term, and while the former would life the burden of senatorial confirmation, the latter retains this, the "good old way" of patronage appointments. Both bills would be an improvement over the situation existing up until July, 1936, but neither would equal the sweeping reform provided by the president's executive order of that month...
...years abroad, notably in the Orient. Chicago's Field Museum has sponsored many of his expeditions, though lately he has worked for the London Zoo and the British Museum. Two years ago he formed a panda-hunting partnership with William H. Harkness Jr., but the latter died just before they were to start. Later Mrs Harkness tried in vain to get him to accompany her on her first expedition into the wilds of Tibet. Since he has a contract with the London Zoo, two of his pandas are likely to go there, while he will probably sell the others...
...chances of drawing the right card to the middle of a four-card straight are four out of 47; whereas, with a five-suit deck, the chances are only five out of 60. In other words, the probabilities would be .085106 in the former instance and .083333 in the latter. TIME, therefore, is nearly 18/100 of one percent in error and if the responsible party feels indebted for this information, I'll settle for one blue chip...
...trying first to prevent the World War, then to bring peace. In 1916 he was consulting strategist of the he-kept-us-out-of-war campaign in which Wilson was reelected, again a diplomat during the War and early League of Nations days, was estranged from Wilson in the latter days of the Administration. More influential than any brain truster of Franklin Roosevelt, Colonel House never held an elective office...