Word: latters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rumor swirled across Europe: Hitler was in the latter phases of paranoia. He had been seriously injured in last summer's bomb plot. He had been partially paralyzed by an apoplectic stroke. He had undergone a throat operation. He was under the care of four doctors, including a brain specialist. On his physician's advice, he had retired to Berchtesgaden. He had been deposed by Gestapoboss Heinrich Himmler. He was simply keeping out of sight so as not to associate himself in the minds of Germans with the days of defeat. He was dead...
Newman's reason was "to find out things never noticed before"; his reaction, "truly incredible boredom." The most trying period was "the latter half of the first 25 performances. Then I got my second wind." Newman learned to sleep open-eyed, but the slightest deviation from the script would wake him up "with a jerk." Slight differences in intonation or timing came to be "minor events." When Newman occasionally slipped out for a breath of air, "the actors who resented my continuous presence most . . . objected to my temporary absence even more." The acting, Newman found, was highly intermittent...
...going to fight you like hell," Regent H. J. Lutcher Stark told Rainey in 1940 when the latter refused to remove three members of the faculty without a hearing. "I doubt the wisdom and propriety of you, as president of the University, urging or suggesting that a member of the Board of Regents refrain from doing anything whatsoever," wrote Regent D. F. Strickland in 1943 to Texas' president. Under the Board's rules a university president is supposed to be the professional adviser to the Board, but for several months Texas' Regents excluded President Rainey from their...
...writers split basically into two camps, choosing roughly between the methods of two famous Negro leaders: conservative, cautious, compromising Booker T. Washington and politically aggressive Frederick Douglass. To followers of the former, "changing public opinion is the mightiest weapon for the Negro's deliverance." To the latter's disciples, the Negro's future task is to give "life, reality and force to [the] social and political principles of freedom ... set forth in the Declaration of Independence...
Dean Buck of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences will remain in his present offices on the second floor, south, as will Dean Hanford and the assistant deans of the College, with office rearrangement for the latter group on the first floor. Dean Buck's assistants will take the south wing of the third floor, from which Dean Leighton and the assistant Freshman deans will be moved to the first floor, north...