Word: latters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University of Washington has over 18,000 students enrolled and attending classes on its Seattle campus. It turns out excellent crews and better than average football teams. Howie Odell, formerly of Yale, coaches the latter. The "U," as it is called by Washingtonians, is pretty typical of large state universities throughout the country. It is, also, typically, extremely sensitive to the state legislature and that body's tugs on the purse strings...
...solved this by hanging one loud speaker on a lighting boom directly over the stage and aiming it out toward the audience. He placed another backstage it is the latter speaker which gives the effect of the music coming from the air of an enchanted laic...
...Harvard English department, which approved the selection, MacLeish seemed an ideal choice. As a Pulitzer Prizewinning poet (Conquistador, 1932), MacLeish lives up to the latter-day Boylston tradition of creative rather than scholastic talent as exemplified by the last two holders of the chair: Poet Robert S. Hillyer and Poet Theodore Spencer, who died in January. He will receive upward of $10,000 a year, plus the legendary right to pasture a cow in Harvard Yard. To MacLeish, the job will mean one more turn to a career that has already covered a catalogue of callings, ranging from gentleman-farmer...
...occupy the first boat are invariably of similar build broad shouldered and long-limbed. In addition to these criteria, the prospective varsity oar must be endowed with coordination, large quantities of stamina, and equally generous amounts of enthusiasm, patience, and guts. But a man can have all the latter qualifications and still not become an oarsman unless he has the height to give him leverage to generate the needed power...
Once the shell has settled at its regular pace, the main problem is for every man to concentrate on form, power, and timing. The coxswain maintains the latter rudder handles, saving his voice to tell the stroke what beat he is setting and where his boast stands in relation to the opposition...