Word: retrospection
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...seven generations, the jewelry-mad Nizams had built up an unparalleled collection of gems: their pearls alone, the Times reported, would "pave Broadway from Times Square to Columbus Circle." But the Nizams' obsession with stuffing their dank chambers with priceless diamonds and then forgetting all about them seems, in retrospect, like a symptom of a deep-rooted anxiety about the dynasty's security. They were Muslim princes ruling, often brutally, over a mostly Hindu part of India, and their reign was always tenuous. It ended in 1948, when independent India seized Hyderabad...
...retrospect, it looks like most of the stuff we printed wasn’t very good,” he says...
...retrospect, Lehrer said those three years were “a life-changing experience.” In the military, he finally took his first plane ride and travelled outside the United States. Those experiences changed how he treated other people and viewed the rest of the world, he said...
...Computers were a scarce commodity for the Class of 1981. When I took Nat Sci 110, the introduction to computing course, we had to fight for terminal time at the Science Center to run our little training programs on the resident minicomputer. In retrospect, I think we must have been the last class in which everyone typed (and laboriously retyped) their theses and sniffed the vaguely intoxicating fumes of liquid paper. On return visits to campus in the early eighties I’d notice the steady proliferation of PCs (and later Macs). The tools we used to learn...
...Retrospect January 30, 1956 After four years of swimming in a national goldfish bowl, it is easy for the casual undergraduate to grow as indifferent to the changes within his Cambridge world as to development without. Perhaps, therefore, our readers will pardon the Crimson editors’ annual urge to review the past year’s developments before they depart from their notepad pinnacle for more academic file cards. Our only conclusion at such close range can be that it has been a good year for historians and for sorcerers, and that it has been a year of expansion...