Word: latters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...presented the sole question of policy in a meeting designed for brevity in view of imminent examinations. Pointing to present inconsistencies between aid to ex-servicemen under the educational provisions of the GI Bill and under on-the-job training, he asserted that the two-year limitation on the latter must be extended to compare favorably with the four year maximum for veterans at college...
Examination by the CRIMSON of Parkhurst's private papers and his diary, found in his briefcase at police headquarters, showed not only high social connections with two Radcliffe entries, but a career of draft dodging that brought in F.D.R. and Labor Secretary Frances Perkins. The latter had interceded for his draft deferment three times, calling him "indispensable to the Labor Department," and he had made an appeal to President Roosevelt's wife...
...that the only way to appreciate the humor of the magazine is to read it in the same inebriated state in which it is written. It is time for the Lampoon to decide if it is to be a magazine or a club; and if it chooses the latter, then step down and make way for a decent publication. Name withheld by request...
Recorded music is getting better. Part of the credit goes to improved electronic devices, part to engineers who combine technical knowledge with artistic temperament. One of these latter rare specimens is John Hays Hammond Jr., 58, America's gaudiest inventor and holder of nearly 800 patents. Last week he was tuning his latest gadget: an improved "dynamic amplifier," which coaxes uncannily lifelike music out of phonograph records. It was already licensed to RCA and A.T. & T., this month would be demonstrated to the crowned heads of the phonograph industry...
...self-portraits which now & then appeared in Delvaux's canvases looked even more out of place than the nudes; they exhibited the frozen face and faintly old-fashioned garb of a latter-day Buster Keaton, stalking gloomily amidst his dream harem or lifting his hat to a bare-backed girl friend, as in The Meeting...