Word: forthwith
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Exchange opened, he heard that 1,000,000 yards of burlap had changed hands during the first session at a price of about 6.10 cents per yard. Last year one Gladys Meryl Yule, 24, inherited a sum supposed to be about $100,000,000. She was forthwith publicized as "England's richest heiress." The $100,000,000 represented figurative or literal mountains of tea, rubber, coal, oil, banks, newspapers, steamships, flour mills, jute mills or coin of His Britannic Majesty's realm derived therefrom. This polygonal fortune had come to her from her father, old Sir David Yule...
Dynamic A. J. ("Emperor") Cook, who lately clasped hands with Edward of Wales, announced himself a Socialist now and no longer a Communist, and was forthwith rebuked by a scathing resolution of the Communist Party (TIME, April 29), last week roared at a union meeting of Welsh miners : "I have fought as no one else has fought to protect the Communists! I have been reviled for it. I have fed them and clothed them−and I say now they are the most dishonorable set of men I have ever had dealings with...
...passing the timbrel each year for money irks a good manager. President Osborn declared that he was going to stop it. He needed $8,000,000 more endowment. If he did not get it, forthwith he would dismiss 35 employes, suspend others, set a stationary wage scale, cut off trustee support of field expeditions, reduce the number of publications, and close down many other museum activities. Such cessations would strangle educational and scientific work of one of the world's best natural history museums. It was a lugubrious threat. But the trustees admonished President Osborn to make himself content...
...Forthwith Colonel Stewart returned from Manhattan to Chicago with the words: "If the Rockefellers want to fight, I'll show them how to fight. . . . I may be mistaken, but it seems to me that I owe fully as much to the person holding ten shares of Standard Oil of Indiana . . . as I may owe one who has so much wealth that he has to hire experts to spend his income...
...indifferent bats dropped their guano on its dead body. Good for modern paleontology was their filthy covering. It preserved the sloth-bones, teeth, tendons, hide and even a food ball in its stomach. Recently one Ewing Waterhouse of El Paso descended the pit and found the remains, which forthwith went to Yale's Peabody Museum. It is the third and best-preserved ground sloth known, reported Yale's Richard Sivann Lull...