Word: latters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Legend. Muñoz came to politics almost by birthright. His father, Luis Muñoz Rivera, often called Puerto Rico's George Washington, headed the colonial government in the latter days of the Spanish rule, and in 1897 obtained from the Madrid government a charter which provided some autonomies (e.g., the right to make trade treaties with foreign nations) which Puerto Rico does not have now. After the cession of Puerto Rico to the U.S., Muñoz Rivera was invited to take a cabinet post in Madrid. He declined. He chose to stay in Puerto Rico, later...
...added a sumptuousness of his own. His Venus and the Lute Player made the goddess look more human than divine, for his brush managed to suggest the blood beneath the opalescent skin and to impart a warmth that no marble could match. Compared with Titian's, even such latter-day Technicolor Venuses as Lana Turner seemed somewhat anemic...
...entries, all seniors, will huddle, shivering, along the starting line at the foot of Tower Court hill. They will be attired in caps and gowns, the latter rolled up to permit sprinting. Each girl will have a hoop...
Season tickets under the new plan will still be offered to alumni before the general public; but the latter may buy full-season locations before single-game seats are thrown open to sale. There is no change planned in the present undergraduate allocations at present...
Ravreby is another converted end. He played tackle on the freshman team last fall, but is better known for his grip on the Harvard heavyweight boxing championship. He achieved this latter honor for exactly two minutes and ten seconds work, the Ravreby equation of two knockouts...