Word: latters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Salt Lake City in 1890, snow-bearded Wilford Woodruff, then President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, received a revelation from the Lord that the world was not yet ripe for the doctrine of plural marriage. Forthwith he banned it, ordered immediate excommunication of all Mormons who insisted on the full life, including polygamy. That obstacle at last removed, Utah was admitted to Statehood, although Reed Smoot, Mormon Senator, wasn't sure of his seat until after an exhaustive Senate investigation had disclosed that Mormons did not have two horns and a tail, as charged...
...latter had air scouts out, too. They knew that the swift, massive Renown was racing up from the British convoy. They turned off toward Sardinia, and the British resumed their pursuit of the Italian cruisers. When the Renown came up, the Italian battleships were well away toward shore. In all the smoke and scurry, the Renown could not see the effect of her shells at extreme range...
Until the latter half of the 19th Century, fruits and vegetables were generally abhorred by U. S. citizens, especially raw. Since cholera raged most fiercely in the delta of the Ganges, and since the Hindus lived largely on fruits and vegetables, some doctors told their patients they could escape the disease by eating only meat and potatoes...
Sixty percent of Harvard purchases are classical records, while the remaining forty consist of popular pieces. The latter classification divides into smooth and hot numbers with the sweeter songs enjoying a twenty-five to fifteen percent lead...
...duty of the literary man of the present to "reafirm the values in democracy worth fighting for," and not to arrive at "something amazingly like Fascism by the very criticism of the same Fascism." He accused Lewis Mumford and Waldo Frank of being guilty of the latter error, dismissing these men as "calamities of the present crisis...