Word: latters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ready stated that the owners of the cars had either ignored "up to seventeen" parking tickets or were operating illegally registered cars. Ready then warned that students could be fined up to $100 for the latter offense and threatened court action against habitual violators of the parking regulations...
...this instance failed to get his message across. The ballet could have been very funny, since Joffrey took the standard set-up of one male and three girls--starting off together, then each little ballerina getting her chance to dance alone with the man, and finally the latter liking his three girls so much that he keeps them all--and apparently meant to lampoon it. But somehow the number, danced by Lupe Serrano, Ruth Ann Koesum, Catherine Horn, and Scott Douglas, was just corny, and the saccharine music by John Field did not help...
Asked whether the University might arrange with the Cambridge police for the latter to let up on their ticketing activity around the Square, Roberts said this might be possible. In the past, Harvard and Cambridge have had distinct difficulty in getting together on the parking problem, however...
...literary precursor of the novel was the tale, originally an oral narrative. In the hands of such latter-day practitioners as Oscar Wilde and Max Beerbohm, the tale became a highly sophisticated means of telling a story that would not be believable if told in any other tone of voice. In The Seven Islands, Novelist Jon (The House by the Sea) Godden makes the unbelievable believable by spinning with quiet skill a stately little tale about India and hanging from its frail threads the weight of an ancient way of life...
...sing of arms and the man," wrote Virgil rather pointedly in The Aeneid. It remained for World War II to spawn the bards of basic training camps, staging areas, supply depots and paper-shuffling rear echelons. These latter-day laureates all agree that war gets funnier and funnier in direct proportion to its distance from the firing line, and sometimes prove it, e.g., See Here, Private Hargrove, Mister Roberts, No Time for Sergeants. Though it works harder for its laughs and gets fewer of them, Don't Go Near the Water may enjoy a like success. A Book...