Word: latters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present both primary and secondary students are flying six days a week, the latter using sleek 220 horse power Wacos. Thirty-five hours of flying is the minimum in the primary training course and students in the secondary will build up 40 beginning with periods of an hour. Acrobatic flying will receive the greatest emphasis...
...nothing (i.e., very cheap), hence can't lose. Dubbed "King of the Wildcatters" by fellow Texans, Glenn was a moderately successful filling-station operator until 1933. Borrowing a rig from a friend, he drilled several failures, then struck in Big Creek and the Conroe field, sold out the latter for $50,000. From there he moved on to Anahuac in Chambers County. Drilling two and a quarter miles north of the centre of a field controlled by the majors, he struck again, proved the northward extension of Anahuac, the second largest field on the Gulf Coast, sold...
...this morning slept over both prayers and breakfast," he records on one morning. "One advantage attended the omission of the latter, namely an appetite at dinner sufficient to relish Commons beef...
...course, biographical pictures of loved figures always tend to be maudlin. But for the first forty minutes director Lloyd Bacon resisted to such trite tricks as courtroom orations and ectoplasmic figures in the stadium, he fumbled badly in showing Rockne the man. This latter part of the picture is endurable solely because it is thoroughly punctuated with some of the best football shots on celluloid, including three defeats of Army, which may be a happy omen...
...monumental effect, but also by logically unifying the various parts of the statue. It is interesting to note that the difference between the textural quality of the skin and that of the clothing was effected by French's moderate use of the "boss" or roughening method on the latter...