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...have discovered a hitherto latent or dormant fissionable quality "X" of energy, electricity, power, etc. Example: said quality or X maintains that no original nor initial unit or source of energy, electricity, power, etc., can be truly split nor divided into any fraction of the whole and when split or divided into two or more divisions each said division plus my new invention instantly becomes a separate and complete unit or source of energy, electricity or power each the equal of the said original for doing work...
Secret Weapon. In Edgeware. England, just before a game with nearby Rainham, the town's dejected soccer team took time out for a session with Psychotherapist J. (for Joshua) Sparrow, who gave a "psychological pep-talk" to the players "to bring out their latent ability," succeeded so well that Edgeware won its first victory of the season...
...time to think in terms of taking the offensive in the world struggle for freedom and of rolling back the engulfing tide of despotism . . . Even today the Communist structure is overextended, overrigid and ill-founded. It could be shaken if the difficulties that are latent are activated...
Perhaps the best example of Johnson's ability to quiet latent differences was his astounding success in handling the tidelands oil issue last April. While the liberal Democrats were screaming about the great "giveaway" of offshore oil land, their own minority leader, Lyndon himself, was supporting the bill. Never one to make long speeches on the floor ("I proceed on the rule that you don't have to explain something you don't say"), Johnson confined himself to one 20-minute speech, just enough for consumption back in Texas. Then he sat back while the liberals tagged...
Working with Professor Clarence H. Haring, the only other Harvard teacher in the field, McGann hopes to introduce a General Education course on Latin America. "I am sure there is a lot of latent interest in the area," he points out, "it just needs a little stirring up." JONATHAN O. SWAN