Word: afterwards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flashed by stations in Heligoland and Hawaii, and the times simultaneously recorded in stations at Halifax and Seattle, the degrees of longitude between any two stations could nf be very accurately computed. Any slide of this continent would readily appear from further longitudinal determinations made 5, 10, 15 years afterward...
Death alters circumstances. Good humor before is not always good taste afterward. It was bad luck for a number of publishers that Mr. Bryan died shortly after he had once again focused the limelight upon himself and they were just about to caricature...
...minutes oars went back and were pulled forward. Then - bump! Hoover's craft hit that of Beresford. "In the heat of the race," he afterward said, "I judged . . that Beresford was crowding in to my water and I thought: 'If you think you can get away with that, I'm going for you. And I did. I see now I was mistaken...
...Year to Live. You can feel fairly certain after scrutinizing this title that, in the end, she finds that the "one year to live" decision is reversed to allow her marriage and the happy ever-afterward. Before this, she was a dancer's maid; supported her invalid sister, became a dancer; warded off seduction by the wicked theatre man. It is pretty bad, even as these things go, notwithstanding the presence of Dorothy Mackaill, Antonio Moreno, Rosemary Theby, Aileen Pringle and Joseph Kilgour...
Some time ago, one John B. Bolton of Philadelphia invented a fabric out of which collars could be made. Shortly afterward, a soft collar was put on the market, advertised by thousands of brittle, frostily handsome young men who stared down at the great U. S. public from streetcar nooks and up at them from the back pages of magazines. It was called the Van Heusen collar. Forthwith, John B. Bolton of Philadelphia brought suit against one John M. Van Heusen of Jamaica Plain, Mass., to recover $6,000,000. Last week, the court awarded...