Word: afterthought
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...added as an afterthought: "Oh, you will have to elect Douglas a member, too, because we never go anywhere without each other...
...people who live in glass houses have given up throwing stones, has strutted again into public view. From the days of Poor Richard, it has been the ambition of every editor to be an evangelist: not satisfied with guiding, he wishes to misguide.: In many cases, nevertheless, a humanitarian afterthought has squelched or at least veiled the expression of this instinct...
...regard scholarship as of too individual a nature to make organized competition either possible or interesting. A man studies for his own good. If there is any thought at all of a benefit to be conferred on his school through his personal excellence in scholarship, it is an afterthought. Just because studying is purely personal--one might almost call it a development of one's egoism--it has been necessary in both schools and colleges to seek in extra-curriculum activities the means for creating an esprit de corps. As a general rule, a man is a good student because...
...myself and knowledge," he added, but it was no afterthought. "We were all of us seeking learning--like Paracolsus...
Secretary of State Hughes, called upon by Lord Curzon, offered to let American financial experts "sit in" on the solution of Europe's reparations problem (TiME, Nov. 5). Premier Poincare grumbled "Yes"? and added as an afterthought: " We have no liking for your suggestion." The result is that the whole proposal may come to naught. But meanwhile the question has been translated into terms of national politics by the group of League of Nations irreconcilables...