Word: latters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next year his young wife's -other nations wondered what his reward for being a model modern monarch would be-whether Belgium would be saved from the Nazi juggernaut or go down to bloody defeat and national extinction. If the former, he could thank his Allies. If the latter, it would be chiefly because King Leopold, gentleman and sportsman, was (like most Western World democrats) unconditioned to survive in a world containing Adolf Hitler...
...Sullivan is really in agreement with Dr. Russell so far as the latter's private views, utterances, and actions are concerned. If any of Dr. Russell's statements violated "laws that forbid indecency of expression as well as profanity," or if any of his actions were not "countenanced by . . . (the) legal code," then clearly Dr. Russell would be subject to legal restraint; he has not claimed exemption from this, since all he asserts is the right to "think, speak, and behave" as he may wish" within the law" and when "not engaged" in his "professional duties." That is Dr. Russell...
...York Rugby Club was unable to get away to meet the rugby fifteen on Saturday. This was to be the decisive test to the Crimson's claim to the throne in the Eastern Rugby Union. Unfortunately it will be impossible to play the game at a latter date...
...Bushman rents ground to a shiftless squatter, Boliver Tussie, he offers an inhuman contract forbidding whiskeymaking, fishing, frolics and immoral conduct, on pain of eviction and confiscation of crops. Boliver has to take it or leave the land; he takes it. Living up to it is another matter. The latter half of the novel develops a desperate contest between two types of land-lover - the owner and the enjoyer. For perhaps the first time since Huckleberry Finn, the squatter's anarchic, slovenly, sensual life is presented as enviable. Meanwhile Bushman's son Tarvin and Subrinea Tussie, the length...
...only slip up that the New Yorkers have had in the league tilts so far is a tie with Long Island University. In view of the fact that the Crimson soundly trounced the latter last Saturday, they are slated to come out the winners in the coming conflict...