Word: latters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...game was something of a personal triumph. One of only three returning lettermen last March, he had been shunted to a back-seat role for most of the season. But yesterday he came into his own at last, slamming out two singles and a grand slam home-run. The latter hit sewed up the game for the Crimson and doubtless will be many times celebrated in story when Balboni sits down with his grandchildren years hence...
...latter proposal, of course, is finding increasing favor across the nation, and a frightened cluster of special interest groups is buying thousands of column inches in magazines and newspapers in order to fight it. Under the headline, "Government Always Shrinks a Dollar," Republic Steel periodically tells readers that "whenever the government finances something for you, you pay for it--through taxes--with your own dollar that has inevitably been shrunk...
Stated briefly, reaction to the political challenge has divided undergraduates into two distinct groups: Blissful Indifference, and Ineffective Desperation. No one takes the latter group very seriously. In response to the conservative plea, most students assert simply that "you can't turn back the clock"; in reply to the radical demand, the majority insist that it is dangerous to "upset the applecart." This leaves the potent majority of the Center, the drifting "moderates...
...conveying our thoughts and feelings on this subject. But it is of the first importance to remember what the distinguished theologians themselves sometimes forget, that these are only metaphors. Only religious discourse has evolved expressions powerful enough to convey how pressing political concerns have become today because the latter alone today speaks meaningfully of what once the former alone could speak of: that is, the "salvation" of the human "soul...
...case Wadsworth should run into difficulty, Shepard can call upon either Wally Cook or Byron Johnson, two pitchers who have both done very well during the latter part of the season. Cook, indeed, saved the first Yale game with a fine fourinning relief...