Word: afterward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard did almost as well during Depression as during prosperity-$70,969,589 in nine years between 1920 and 1929, $60,261,527 in eight years since 1929. Chicago did better, with $30,650,030 before 1929, $48,604,771 afterward. Yale, which started an endowment drive in 1926, reaped a bumper harvest in Depression's soil. In the 1920s it raised $64,199,898, in the 1930s...
...bone included drilling, sawing, cutting and scraping. If the patient did not die immediately, new bone tended to grow back although in no case was the hole completely closed. From this evidence Dr. Rogers concluded: that 78% of the victims survived the operation, that 63% lived for several years afterward, as shown by advanced healing. Of the 22% who failed to survive, probably not all died from the operation, since presumably some were fatally ill or wounded when the surgery was undertaken...
...game-filled woods, hunting bear and deer with his kindhearted pa and a clan of big, bearded, hell-raising moonshiners and horse traders. Occasionally his pa takes him to visit a hearty old woman who lives in a village on the St. Johns River. He sees a flood, afterward goes hunting where stranded wild animals are thicker than flies. Jody's pal is a pet fawn. He takes it on hunting trips, even sleeps with it when he can get around his fussy, practical ma. The idyl ends when hard scrub reality forces him to kill his fawn because...
Lampposts were blown down, trees uprooted and their greenery set afire, buildings collapsed and streetcars & their occupants were blown to bits. Correspondent Matthews set about getting something to eat during a lull between raids, continued to observe morale in the restaurant. "I did not find it amusing," he cabled afterward, ''to see a great hulking fellow who was eating with his girl jump up and beat her to the kitchen by three strides as the next raid began...
...Thames, near London. The Bishop of Stepney, invited to deliver the first of a series of lunch-hour talks organized by the vicar, Rev. T. B. Scruton, preached soberly to 200 people, half of them young white-collar workers, who munched apples, nuts, sandwiches, peppermints. Said a schoolteacher afterward, brushing off his crumbs: "I would not be here unless I were able to eat during the service...