Word: latters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yangtze inundated a large part of China's vital rice bowl. The Communists admitted the flooding of nearly 42,000 square miles of farm land. Western sources put the figure at over 267,000 square miles. In view of the Yangtze's record crest of 97 feet, the latter figure in probably the more accurate...
Perkins has proposed that the Lowell dining hall be made quieter by 1) sound-proofing its two end walls, and 2) moving the serving tables into the kitchen. Under the latter arrangement, which is similar to the dining set-ups at Yale, the student would file into the kitchen to get his food and file back into the dining room...
Purists will criticize the cutting of the play and the rewriting at the end--the latter with a good deal of justification. Since some shortening was obviously necessary, Castellani has reduced the part of Mercutio--usually a favorite with audiences--to a mere shadow of its former, lusty self. But it was probably the safest major slicing job he could do, especially since some critics consider the robust youth an overgrown character in the first place. At any rate, he appears only long enough to deliver a few speeches and be killed which is all the plot requires...
...Democratic strategy will be directed toward separating in the public mind President Eisenhower, the popular military leader, from President Eisenhower, the civil and political leader. The former they will let alone. They hope, through remorseless analysis as issues and occasions arise, to show that the limitations of the latter disqualify him for a second term. Their strategy implies that they expect him to run again. Sincere Democrats believe that the President is the major and almost indeed the only political asset of the Republican Party...
Like many a latter-day political bigwig, Julius Caesar prepared for greater things to come by serving as a highway commissioner. His job was to take care of the Appian Way, the great road that stretched from Rome to Brindisi on Italy's southern coast. Laid out in 312 B.C. and already famed in Caesar's day, the Via Appia became known, in the centuries that followed, as the Queen of Roads. Many a victorious Roman legion marched homeward in triumph along its stone paving and over its skillfully engineered bridges. Wealthy Romans built their most sumptuous villas...