Word: latters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...find jobs as librarians, laboratory assistants, typists, workers in museums, assistants to professors, etc., instead of having to take jobs waiting on tables in Boston hotels and night clubs, selling shoes, etc. The former type of job could work in nicely with a man's study program whereas the latter takes many hours a week out of his college work...
...jobs would be classed under two general headings, college work and graduate work. The former, since it is relatively unskilled, is rewarded with a lower minimum, maximum, and average wage than the latter, both per hour anl per month. A student in the College would earn something over $13 a month on the average at from $30 to $50 an hour...
Yale will be strong in the regular races, Coach Mikkola said, while Harvard will dominate the field events. The Crimson's superiority in the latter, coupled with an above-average group of hurdlers, given them an excellent chance to beat Yale. The most Saturday will be the first of its kind, for the Mikkolamen have never before competed with the sons of Eli in an indoor dual meet...
...American soldiers or sailors start to fight Britain's battle, our own battle will be lost. Unlike war in 1917, war in 1941 must be "total." Once American battleships fire or are fired upon in Europe waters, we shall be committed to a policy that will end years latter either with American doughboys marching down. Unter den Linden, or with a shameful and disastrous retreat to our own hemisphere. In any case this war will mean universal conscription, loss of civil liberties, regimentation, and hard times. It will means a loss of the principles and the very "way of life...
There are two possibilities about Powys. One is that he is just as innocent and headlong as he seems. The other is that, like Ted Lewis or the latter-day John Barrymore, he is a master of ham-for-the-hell-of-it, a talented and laughing charlatan who gives the people super-portions of what they seem to want. In either case, he makes his audience uncomfortable, but he holds them...