Word: latters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...formal Hitomaro, experts in flower arrangement, tea-brewing and fish-breeding. On the other hand are the assiduous, tough-minded students of Chinese culture, whence sprang the Japanese culture which is now being foisted back on China. The former are generally peace-loving, stay-at-home liberals; the latter are nationalistic fire-eaters...
...latter enterprise Joan Crawford at first comes too close to succeeding. But when the film gets under way and Susan wakes up to find that her patient husband...
...profits up to 95%. Mild, as war-profits taxes go, La Follette 's was nevertheless inequitable. Reason: corporations that have recently earned a high rate of return would be penalized in comparison with those that have been running at or near a deficit. For the latter (railroads, etc.) could ride the boom a long time (with a leverage quotient seductive to investors) before reaching the onerous tax brackets. The more efficient a corporation has been, the more its capital consists of brains instead of brick - in short, the more successful a corporation has been in terms of its normal...
Longer than In Defense of Love, as unaggressive and scrupulous as the latter is hog-wild, is The Successful Error, by Rudolf Allers. Rudolf Allers is a psychiatrist, formerly of Vienna, and a Catholic. Like many a well-educated Catholic, he uses the instruments not of faith but of logic, thereby finds psychoanalysis illogical in its premises, highly rationalized in their proofs. That one such volume should destroy psychoanalysis is most improbable. That laymen should feel qualified either to swallow or spit out its arguments is only too possible. But that such a volume may aid in the reduction...
...band playing at an obscure ballroom a short time ago in New York, and they certainly, deserve better work. Most of the band being out of the old Claude Hopkins gang, they play fine stuff, especially the tenor man, first trumpet man Alston, and the second trumpet. Both the latter, by the way, have something unusual-clear easy tones and unhurried, subtle styles...