Word: latters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wolfville, N.S., Canada latter may be more exact in meaning...
...seems that Lionel Barrymore, an old whaling captain, can't take his grandson, Dean Stockwell, back to sea unless the latter passes his fourth grade examinations. Master Stockwell fails them, but a sympathetic principal fixes up the mark, thus permitting the boy to ship over. This takes care of a quarter of the film. At sea, there is a struggle between the old captain and the young first mate over the education of the boy, plus a few adventures with whales and icebergs, which are covered so quickly and superficially that one wonders why the directors bothered to fill their...
Pound and Fairbank will concentrate on Chinese policy. Both have spent the last few years in China, the former as legal adviser to Chiang's Minister of Justice, and the latter as special assistant to the American ambassador...
This article itself illustrates the contrast between a justified and an unjustified descriptive term. The student's blindness obviously bears a significant relation to the accident; his colored skin does not. Therefore, the latter should not have been mentioned, just as his shoe size was omitted...
Reformation without tarrying, was the watchword of 16th Century Robert Browne, father of Congregationalism. Last week, the General Council of the Congregational Christian Churches, deciding that it had tarried long enough over a latter-day reformation, voted to merge with the 700,000-member Evangelical & Reformed Church. The new denomination, to be called the United Church of Christ, will number approximately 2,000,000 members. It is the largest Protestant union since the Methodist Protestant Church, the Methodist Episcopal Church, and the M.E. Church, South were reunited...