Word: latters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are two seasons in Malaya: the wet season and the wetter season. The latter, which is about to begin, makes the east side of Malaya an unbearable windswept sponge land. Landings off the coast in support of beachheads would be all but impossible. The only two motor roads on the east side are often broken by floods...
...gain some immediate advantage from an increase. It will nevertheless cost them traffic later. A blanket increase falls heaviest on high-grade, high-rate freight and on long-distance shippers. The former is the most vulnerable part of railroad business, is best adapted to shipping by truck. The latter are the prime movers in a long-term threat to the railroads: the decentralization of industry toward its supply sources and markets, U.S. regional integration...
...December issue of the Guardian, designed to catch the eyes of delegates to the National Student Merger Convention, is outstanding in all but its editorial. The latter is the Guardian's first official statement of opinion in three years, and deals with the fact that America is at war. Although it was necessary that the usually impartial and impassive political magazine take some sort of stand on such big things as war declarations, the rare expression of opinion says little that has not been heard many times recently, and says it with a calm lack of inspiration...
...These tests consist of the Scholastic Aptitude Test on the morning of Saturday, April 11, and a series of achievement tests in languages, sciences, and social sciences, on that afternoon. Choice among these latter tests will depend upon the student's preparatory courses in his final school year and his plans for college...
Although overwhelmed by the defending victors, the Crimson Yardlings unveiled two talented wrestlers in Gus Hemenway and Al Page, despite the fact that the latter lost his match by a 10-9 decision...