Word: latters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
...futures." There, amid marble busts of bygone Academicians, they heard an earnest harangue from "Perpetual Secretary" Georges Duhamel. In its past the Academy had spurned Molière, Daudet, Balzac, Zola, many another great nonconformist; why not, demanded Novelist Duhamel, seize this magnificent occasion to elect such latter-day greats as Louis Aragon, Roger Martin du Gard, André Gide, André Malraux, Paul Claudel...
Other likely contestants, in the two latter categories especially, are Don Watt, G. M. Edgarton, Ernst Petschek, and Toby Ross...
...H.L.U. does not wish to question the dean's decision in this particular case, but rather the regulation itself. As the latter now stands, the University authorities may channel all fund collections (other than those conducted by mail or through this medium) towards those charities it deems most worthy...
...misuse the expression "tinker's dam" by spelling it "tinker's damn" [TIME, Jan. 7]? ... The latter expression means nothing. A tinker's dam was really a dam made of clay, which the traveling tinkers used to surround a spot on a pan or kettle to keep the solder from spreading or running until it cooled, while [the utensil was] being repaired. As soon as the solder cooled, the dam was thrown away as useless and worthless. Hence . . . "tinker's dam" to denote something having no value...