Word: latters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the big guns on the Heights team are fugitives from Denny Myers' eleven. Ed Clasby and Steve Stuka, who alternated at the T-quarterback slot last fall, are two of the most versatile of the Eagles. The former holds down shortstop and the latter is slated as starting pitcher...
...Communism, which is another of our latter-day religions, is, I think, a leaf taken from the book of Christianity-a leaf torn out and misread. Democracy is another leaf from the book of Christianity, which has also, I fear, been torn out and, while perhaps not misread, has certainly been half emptied of meaning by being divorced from its Christian context and secularized; and we have obviously ... been living on spiritual capital, I mean clinging to Christian practice without possessing the Christian belief...
...latter campaign for in infancy, however, when Vandenberg telegraphed a negative reply to Schwebel's request to form a National Student league in support of the Michigan Senator's nomination. "I must emphatically request you not to proceed with the organization contemplated," his message road in part, "I am very sure I can best serve my country by completing my present tour of duty in the Senate...
...concern. Some intend to back Wallace to register a squawk; others may dislike Truman policies but will support him or, in greater likelihood, work for a better Democratic nominee, in the belief that a protest vote assuring Republican success is too-great a luxury today. Heading up the latter are the major officers of U. S. labor in company with old New Dealers such as Eleanor Roosevelt and upcoming politicians such as Minneapolis Mayor Hubert H. Humphrey. When this coalition assembled at the February Convention of Americans for Democratic Action, it was conspicuous that both the personality and drive...
...find two kinds of poor drivers," he announced, "those whose IQ shows they can't read the read signs, and others whose IQ's are above 110. College professors are in the latter group. Investigation indicates that professors at the steering wheel permit their thoughts to dwell on matters other than driving...