Word: thenceforth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Students of the history of science may well date the birth of modern Oceanography from December 21, 1872, the day when the Challenger set sail from Ports-mouth, England, on her memorable voyage. Thenceforth, with every fresh venture below the surface of the sea, such a flood of new facts came pouring in that it seemed for a time as though this fact catching could never lose its novelty. One great deep-sea expedition led to another and more was learned about the sea during the last thirty years of the nineteenth century than had been during the preceding three...
Designer Agha ruled that thenceforth headlines and picture captions would be devoid of capital letters. The capital letter was obviously an obsolete and needless convention; its omission was indubitably swank, European, thoroughly in keeping with the foreign spirit of the magazine. For five issues, therefore, Vanity Fair appeared with such captions as the following: eva le gallienne . . . the director of the civic repertory plays Juliet in her own production, with Jacob benami as romeo...
...said, the first attempt ever made to trace the subsequent careers of criminals after their incarceration. The statement had been made and generally accepted that when criminals had served their terms and were let loose, approximately 80 per cent of them went the straight and narrow path thenceforth. But Glueck went into the matter in detail. He looked into every corner of the lives of 500 criminals at four stages in their careers, compiling statistics at every turn. Ninety per cent of these men were kept in touch with while located in every part of the United States. In treating...