Word: latters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sponsoring a course in Continental code; a neighboring high school presents an evening course in the repair of airplane engines. But these are not of University calibre. The former, primarily designed as a psychological experiment, gives only skeleton instruction that does not touch on the mechanics of radio. The latter is so informal that the school authorities themselves admit its value is questionable...
Consequently an amendment legalizing the distribution of birth control information is to Catholics what authorization of centers of Nazi propaganda in our midst would be to both of us. As for both of us in the latter case so for Catholics in the former, the conviction as to what constitutes the common good causes us to vote as we do. If the decision of the majority is against us we accept as citizens, but continue as Catholics...
...talk to and during meals there is a stampede rivaled only by downtown Boston of a St. Patrick's Day. And Mr. Heman is almost flustered at times by the problem of feeding 1200 tightly scheduled navy men, and keeping them happy in the process. To cope with the latter emergency, the motherly waitresses of days past have been largely replaced by their faster-moving daughters. As for the mechanics of feeding so large a group, comfort has given way to utility and much needed dining hall space. Doors have been cut through walls, the first floor men's room...
...direct descendants of Founder Joseph followed his widow Emma into the reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (140,000 members) with headquarters at Independence, Mo. They still hotly insist that Joseph had only one wife instead of the 28 claimed for him by Utah Mormons, ask why, if he had five children by Emma, he had none by the other...
...Carlo was to join it a week later at the same stand. While balletomanes roared approval in accents as thick as borsch, more staid Manhattanites took stock of the first of five brand-new ballet productions, mooned nostalgically over such puff-skirted favorites as Swan Lake and Sylphides, such latter-day spectacles as Petrouchka and Bluebeard...