Word: afterwards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pragmatism has been generally considered as chiefly an American contribution to practical philosophy. Dr. Schiller himself studied for some years at Cornell University. He was also an instructor there from 1893 to 1897. Returning afterward to Oxford, he became tutor and fellow of Corpus Christi College...
...turned to Christ and became a catechumen. His parents forced him to give up the thought of serving God and made him enlist in the army of France. One day, quartered at Amiens, he met a naked beggar on the road and divided his cloak with him, immediately afterward beholding a vision of Christ who acknowledged from heaven this act of charity to himself "on the part of Martin,* still a catechumen." In the picture the corded body of the beggar tilts at the pale rump of the horse. Martin, wearing a ruff, inclined with pity in the saddle, severs...
...attired I am reported to have motored to the border in a diplomatic car, and to have expressed pleasure to Dr. Hjelf that it did not fly the red flag, emblem of Finland at that time. As is known, I did flee to Finland at the date in question, afterward proceeding to Sweden. As is also known, General von Hindenburg, my colleague, remained behind, though equally in danger, manfully cheering and bracing the army in the trying Armistice days...
...were steeped in the beauties of the peaceful streams and meadows around Oxford or Cambridge, who passed long, quiet years in the cool courts and gardens of the colleges, who found congenial friends and tutors, read much classical and modern literature and exchanged ideas with stimulating minds, naturally here afterward the mark of those years...
...Soon afterward, His Holiness married his niece, Louise Ratti, to Marquis Eduardo Persichetti, Secretary to the Nicaraguan legation to the Vatican, onetime Chamberlain of the Cape and Sword under Popes Benedict XV and the present Pius. Marriages officiated by the Pope are very rare. His Holiness presented the bride with four artistic bookcases, each containing 25 volumes, which he had selected himself, pertaining to the duties of a Christian wife and mother. After the nuptials, His Holiness delivered an address, in which he deplored modern laxity in customs and dress. The newly married pair and a few special guests were...