Word: latters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expressing a hangover. For just as the amount of capacitive reactance depends on the value of capacitance and the frequency, so does the resultant morning-after depend upon the same factors in a similar manner--the only difference being in the former we are discussing electric currents, in the latter liquid currents...
...number of trains back. When you go to visit her without means of automotive transport, there is a limited number of prospects before you. Two in fact. Visiting the corner drug store for a soda and walking around the dimly lit and grassy shores of Lake Waban. The latter type of entertainment is recommended for them...
...might happen, said he, if a bomb hit a rock wedged in the vent of a volcano which was just barely holding the volcanic force back. But, he added, "the earth forces involved are so enormous as compared with any that man can bring to bear that the latter are wholly inconsequential...
Somewhere in England, hawk-faced Colonel General Jurgen von Arnim, captive commander of Axis North African armies, complained of a soldier's ailment (flat feet). He also showed signs of a beaten general's occupational ailments-mental depression and an anxiety neurosis. For the latter trouble, the British called in a psychiatrist...
Conclusions. Wrote Professor Hill: "Much is being written about the 'menace' of the comics. Unfortunately a distinction is not always drawn between comic magazines and the comics of the daily papers. In [my] opinion, most of the latter are quite harmless. ... [I doubt] that the reading of [newspaper] comics would do any serious harm to a child's vocabulary attainments. Most of the words used would, in fact, tend to help him build vocabulary meanings. . . . We need to be much more concerned about the total effect of the comics on the attitudes and ethical concepts of children...