Word: latters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whether or not the latter part of that old custom--that a Harlow team is a late-starting team--will be belied this season remains to be seen. It will have to be discarded if the Cantabs are going to beat Connecticut, for reports have it that the Nutmegs have a hot little squad. Reports aren't needed to point out that they have a fullback named Walt Trojanowski who scored 23 times last year and is going to be hard to stop...
...fool or a knave at the driving wheel of a motor vehicle is far more dangerous both to the public and to himself than a fool or a knave on the driver's seat of a hay wagon. Hence, on this latter-day road, the crucial challenge is no longer technological but psychological. . . . The old challenge of physical distance has been transmuted into a new challenge of human relations between drivers who have learned how to 'annihilate distance' and have thereby put themselves in constant danger of annihilating one another...
Crusader Holand's case is largely a concatenation of guesses intended to account for the Minnesota relics. As for the relics themselves, it is possible that they are as bogus as the Cardiff Giant, for whether or not there were Scandinavians in the Middle West in the latter, half of the 14th Century, there certainly have been plenty of them there since the latter half of the 19th Century. If it is hard to believe that any learned wag would bother to cut a long runic inscription as a practical joke, it is also hard to believe that...
...investigation committee plans to meet the first day of the fall term, in order to discuss submitting the new constitution to the Student Council, so that the latter body may have the opportunity of calling for a student vote before the committee takes action on its own part...
France faces a complex problem, which in turn has its bases in many factors including French manpower losses in the two wars, the prolonged German occupation, and the Latin temperament. The latter factor in large part contributes to the French failure to set up a long range, planned program of recovery calling for patience and deliberation along British lines. The difference is obvious in the conversation of the people. In England one talks about the difficulty of obtaining enough with the limited ration coupons allowed the individual. In France, one talks about the difficulty in obtaining enough money...