Word: latters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quantity if not in quality, the University's musical activities fell both the drought of manpower and the heavy hand of the Office of Defense Transportation during the war, which factors eliminated the once-important. Spring trips of the Glee Club and the Harvard Orchestra, and forced the latter organization to combine forces with Radcliffe. Just as soon as the situation permits, however, the Harvard Orchestra plans to go its own womanless way again...
...told him . . . . I did not think anyone would do nothing in this situation, and he agreed with me. I said of the other two my choice was the latter...
Seventy-one-year-old Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin resigned as President of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet after 27 years in office. From the early days of the Soviet Union's precarious fight for survival down to the latter days of its expansive glory, the "little father of the peasants" had dispensed friendly fatherliness and earthy philosophy. Now, with his eyesight almost gone, he was happy to quit. The shriveled sage with the oldfashioned, tip-tufted beard had the distinction of being one of the few top-ranking Old Bolsheviks to be removed from office merely...
...latter-day Joe Miller, Publisher Bennett (Random House) Cerf modestly styles himself "a regular incubator for anecdotes and witty quips." While incubating his hugely successful (600,000 copies) Try and Stop Me, Cerf went gag-gathering to magazine files, the radio, and his friends, ''devoured reams of columns" by Manhattan gossips...
...Latter-day wearers of the Golden Fleece have included Rudolph Valentino (who was not permitted to open a charge account because Brooks Brothers did not know his antecedents), Gene Tunney, Charles Evans Hughes, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. But the rich and notable are by no means Brooks's only customers. In recent years, it has sold suits for as little as $43, built up annual sales volume to an estimated $5 million. There was a horrid rumor last week that Garfinckel's considered this volume too low, might install a line of women's clothing. To the loyal...