Word: latters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...announcing this new course of training. Dean Donham pointed out that "There are many similarities between military business practice and the practice of private business, and the former can be more efficiently conducted if the experience of the latter is studied. Furthermore it is recognized that there are many areas where Supply Officers and industrialists are mutually concerned, and in these areas problems can be more efficiently solved if a mutual understanding of methods and objectives exists...
...Boston newspapers and the press services immediately called Harvard officials, but the latter were unable to confirm or deny the report. They stated that confirmation of such a story would have to come from Washington. It was admitted, however, that it was quite possible that President Roosevelt may come...
...ships. These are the Tirpitz, 35,000-ton sister ship of the Bismarck, and two 26,000-tonners, the Gneisenau and the Scharnhorst. Berthed at Brest, where they have been under steady attack by units of the Royal Air Force since mid-March, it is not likely that the latter two are in any condition to take a major part in the continuing Battle of the Atlantic...
Gidding has been a script writer for the Crimson Network, one of his works being "About Town With the Gid." Imitations of railroad trains and various dialects have been Hollister's forte. Besides these abilities, the former was a member of last year's Advocate Board, and the latter entered the recent Undergraduate Art. Exhibit in the Germanic Museum...
...caught him translating an original Greek text directly into Sanskrit as fast as writing allowed. His scholarship has carried him from the docks of Portsmouth to friendship with luminaries such as Kittredge, Russell, Gay, and Housman. Favorite recreations besides writing a book include Wodehouse, detective fiction, and travelling--the latter having taken him to every port of Europe save one, all of the Near East and most of North and South America...