Word: afterwards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Clouds, air pockets, winds, days, nights. Dismayed by enormous puffs of fog the flyers left the seacoast, roared over a 60-mile circuit above Imperial Valley. They broke the U. S. record for re-fuelled flight. They broke the international re-fuelled flight records.* Shortly afterward fell the world's record for sustained flight (heavier-than-air machines).? There remained but two records to pass, that for sustained flight (lighter-than-air machines), and the distance record...
...Shortly afterward the Deputies rebounded from this excess of self-denial, voted an increase in the salaries of members of Parliament from 49,000 to 60,000 francs...
...Feng, omniscient housekeeper to an army, was one of the first young Chinawomen to become a Y.W.C.A. worker. As such she was wooed by her impetuous, ambitious husband, who was then and for years afterward a passionate Christian, in the Old Testament, Cromwellian fighting sense. Today the Marshal's state of grace is a trifle uncertain. He has cast in his lot with the studiously non-Christian Chinese Nationalist Party...
...clock this morning, 81 players, coaches, managers, doctors, rubbers, and attaches to the squad will entrain at the Back Bay station for New Haven. Early in the afternoon. Coach Horween will send the Crimson squad through a brief workout in the Bowl. Immediately afterward, they will journey to Wallingford, spending the night at the Choate School, whence they will leave for the Bowl again shortly before noon tomorrow...
...chose wisely for his first-night opera. L'Amore is short. It could begin late that Manhattan's society folk might entertain leisurely at dinner. It could have long intermissions that they might take account of their neighbors' stock. It was over early that they might have their parties afterward...