Word: afterthoughts
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...committee of the Student Council to suggest what should have been solved in the office of Coolidge, Shepley, Bullfinch, and Abbott. It is not my purpose to criticize the work of this capable firm (although they have designed a second story for the new gymnasium which seem like an afterthought instead of an integral part of the building), but I do believe that any firm with the prospect of eleven million dollars of work for an institution should devote a considerable time to the completed future project, and not allow objections to the cost on the part of the University...
...deserted houseboat on which the mother of a millionaire's son has left a pearl necklace worth $200,000 in cinema money. Boob detectives supply most of the comedy and Conrad Nagel's voice the best vocal sequences of a gentle melodrama which is parody only by afterthought...
...precious spruce, logged in Wisconsin, to the tracks of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, which carried them to the airplane-factories which Mr. Ryan was supervising for the Government. That the 30 miles of track completed an important railroad-connection needed by the St. Paul was also an afterthought...
After pausing for an instant, Her Majesty added as a potent afterthought: "I am also writing the story of my life. . . . It is a long task. ... As a child I knew all the great personalities...
...year for the Pulitzer air races. Hearing that Engineer Igor Sikorsky was building monster trimotored planes on Long Island for long-distance flights, it occurred to him to inquire about a trans-Atlantic flight, primarily as a sporting proposition; secondly, to promote aviation by scientific accomplishments; thirdly, as an afterthought, to promote Franco-American goodwill. Engineer Sikorsky consented swiftly and bonded himself for $40,000 to a group called...