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Word: latters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...friendly reviewer pulls the usual journalistic blooper, when he says that although deafened, Edison "could hear distinctly the click and clatter of telegraph keys." This would qualify him for supernormal hearing, because a simple telegraph set consists of key and sounder, the former to send on and the latter to receive from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 23, 1959 | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

...faint revival of discussion on non-Honors tutorial is all to the good. Ever since the CEP drew up the honors program two years ago and left plans for non-Honors tutorial in tantalizing limbo, discussion on the latter has tended to degenerate into fruitless procrastination...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Hope for Non-Honors | 11/20/1959 | See Source »

Tomorrow, both the Business and the Divinity School faculties will debate the issue; and the latter wil probably vote immediately...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 3 Graduate Schools Plan NDEA Action | 11/4/1959 | See Source »

...major problem, however, is to protect from unnundation large sites such as Philae, and Abu Simble, which cannot be removed. The former, Brew said, is "about the size of the Harvard Yard," while the latter is distinguished by 75-foot carved statues of Ramses II guarding the entrance to a series of rock-hewn temple chambers...

Author: By Michael Churchill, | Title: Brew Heads UNESCO Commission To Salvage Archeological Remains | 10/28/1959 | See Source »

Outside of the latter rather sticky item, The Captain From Koepenick is highly entertaining, and in a few of the comic scenes, positively brilliant. Helmut Kautner's comic direction is perceptive and lightning fast. His sausage-filled officials are overdone perfectly, and his other minor characters dodge in and out of the story with potent effect. And of course, throughout, there is Heinz Ruhmann's performance, which alone makes The Captain From Koepenick eminently worth seeing...

Author: By Peter E. Quint, | Title: The Captain From Koepenick | 10/27/1959 | See Source »

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