Word: afterthought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the Corporation as an afterthought tactfully suggests that the resolution is in no wise ot be taken as a reflection on either Drinker or the Collins Company, it is too obvious that as the University, retreating from the melee, determines to forestall a similar abuse, it is at the same time making a final pass at the enfant terrible...
...These courses tend to prolong an immature and perfunctory attitude and seem to me thoroughly at odds with the spirit of tutorial work. A good deal of what is wrong and inadequate with the tutorial system is due to the fact that it is regarded as being merely an afterthought and distinctly secondary to the requirement of course work...
Broadway had another important theatrical bankruptcy last week. Albert Herman ("Sweetheart") Woods failed for about a million and a half. Producer Woods-his real name is Albert Herman, the "Woods" was an afterthought - achieved fame through a series of farces by Avery Hopwood (Fair & Warmer, Up In Mabel's Room, Getting Gertie's Garter) that caused the reformers of a decade ago to cry shrilly for the police. But Al Woods has innumerable friends. Notably sloppy in his dress, generally ill-shaven, he calls everybody, male or female, "Sweetheart" with the exception of his friend George Bernard Shaw...
...nature of an attractive afterthought, President Swope included in his plan "a provision ... to place domestic corporations of the sort described on a parity with foreign competition." Companies exporting might deduct from their Federal income tax the equivalent of X percent of its export sales, "this X percent deemed to be the equivalent in selling price of the various provisions for the benefit of employes which the company must make under this plan and from which some foreign companies which the domestic companies have to meet in competition are free...
Example: As an afterthought Peter Kuerten said: "I suppose my first murder was really committed when I was a boy of nine. I pushed two of my playmates into the Rhine and kept them under water with a pole...