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...significance of the organization lies in its possible effect upon public opinion. If the Veterans of Future Wars can set in motion the latent forces that will smash the twin idols of patriotism and privilege too long worshipped in this country, their service will have been a real one. The college students of today form the electorate of tomorrow, and what they hope to accomplish now by ridicule may be done later with stronger weapons...
Behind the locked doors of the swimming pool, Freshman swimmers who did not receive numerals will have a chance to show their latent talent this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock in the annual championships. Six events will be held for the bashful mermen...
Applying to authors Major Bowes' principle of discovering latent talent, Reader's Digest magazine has announced a $5000 prize contest for non-fiction articles by persons who have never before contributed to national periodicals...
...Edward Mandell House: "I am, I must admit, about at the end of my patience with Great Britain and the Allies. . . . I am seriously considering asking Congress to authorize me to prohibit loans and restrict exportations to the Allies. It is becoming clear to me that there lies latent in this policy the wish to prevent our merchants getting a foothold in markets which Great Britain has hitherto controlled and all but dominated...
...these are real works of art in a twentieth-century medium. "Gulliver Mickey", for example, has happily seized upon the delight of miniatures, of 100 doll-house bric-a-brac, latent in the "Travels", and given them a separate existence, the satire being discarded. Disney has come a long way from the days when visual puns were the heart of an animated cartoon. You remember: Felix the Cat used to have trouble entering fourth-story windows, only to sprout columns of huge question marks out of his head and use them as the necessary ladder. Insead of this...