Word: latters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first school thinks Joseph Stalin may be playing a sly, lone, isolationist hand. It points out parallels, such as Kutuzov's reply to the British observer Wilson when the latter urged the Russian to destroy Napoleon instead of merely pursuing him. "Kutuzov told him plainly," says Eugene Tarle (Napoleon's Invasion of Russia), "that his aim was to eject Napoleon from Russia and that he did not see why Russia should waste her forces on the complete destruction of Napoleon, since the harvest of such a victory would be reaped by England, not Russia...
...evening's business got under way with a contest between Eliot and Leverett in which the latter triumphed by the score of 4 to 0. After suffering the ignominy of not having enough men to play a game last week, the Elephant pucksters last night were able to put six men on the ice, but they were not able to form a real team. The Leverett squad had no trouble at all in subjecting them...
...must have had some mother to inspire such a ridiculous, untimely attack on American mothers (Generation of Vipers, TIME, Jan. 18). God knows that we have enough affairs on the national and international scenes open to criticism (strikes, politics, etc.). Instead of choosing one or more of the innumerable latter, Writer Wylie denounced some of America's proudest possessions: Mom, the common man, the Brooklyn Dodgers, the Star-Spangled Banner. . . . After his lusty vulgarity, civilization-pitying Mr. Wylie dares to quote from Christ's text...
...soon as a starfish attaches itself to an oyster the latter closes its shell, and (as already has been demonstrated) because of a powerful system of interlocking muscles, it is then able to withstand the application of a pressure greater than any commonly attributed to the strength of a starfish...
...When, in 1928, the meteoric career of Joe Strong, the Boy Plunger, ended abruptly with the latter's disappearance from Wall Street, few knew that Perelman had ended another chapter. In bloody Cicero, Illinois, swart Sicilian mobsters fingered their roscoes uneasily, dismayed at lightning forays by a new rival. In a scant eight months, no shell of needled beer touched lip in Chicago County without previous tribute to 'Nails' Perelman. Implacable, deadly as a puff adder, the hand that triggered a steely automatic could caress a first Folio with equal relish. Able to snatch in fifteen minutes...