Word: thenceforth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After Christmas vacation of 1918, the paper was once again on a daily schedule; although set back fast. In 1919 CRIMSON bought the 20-year old Harvard Illustrated Magazine, a pictorial journal, and thenceforth published a bi-weekly photographic supplement...
Jules came to office in troublous times. His decapitation of the nightclub slayer Eugene Weidmann was accompanied by such a burst of newsmen's flashbulbs and sob sisters' ink that public executions were barred thenceforth. Once he was arrested on suspicion of being a German paratrooper when his portable guillotine got lost. Thanks to the occupying Germans' zeal for capital punishment, however, he managed to pile up a post-Sanson record of 316 beheadings during his career...
...with changed personalities. Young workers that had been tending the baby bees forsook their charges and started gathering nectar, to be stored up in the combs and made into honey.* Older workers, that had been gathering both nectar and pollen (for baby bees), usually gathered nothing but nectar thenceforth. The gassing caused both age groups to ignore the colony's system of cooperative reproduction. Only one emotion remained: greed for more & more nectar...
Always the Normal. Thenceforth, Magician Rinn fervently practiced what he and most of his fellow magicians insistently preached: that no "spirit manifestation" existed that they could not duplicate by plain trickery. They showed how clammy "spirit hands" (that brushed the brows of spectators at dark séances) were concocted out of paraffin or simply from "a kid glove filled with wet sawdust . . . kept on ice." One piece of so-called "ectoplasm" ("ectopiffle would be a better name," remarked a surly magician) proved to be a chunk of animal lung. The only "spirit body" that Rinn failed to duplicate...
...tons of concrete into the Square's car-jammed read bed to alleviate traffic conditions. They patty-caked it into a rotund island around the kiosk, and Harvard Square became a circle. Results were immediate and beneficial. Harrassed drivers took one look at the obstacle course, and thenceforth drove to work via Fresh Pond Parkway or Wellesley Hills. The traffic problem was solved...