Word: forth
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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When the moment arrives for the applause-seeking type to leave, the clapping bursts forth loudly in recognition of the dramatic last lecture. The ovation continues while the instructor drinks a glass of water and slowly searches for his hat. Winter is the ideal time for this type, for he can also fumble with his coat as the ovation goes on. But in Spring he must revert to the device of wishing the class good luck on the final exam, then stopping back to allow the applause to burst forth anew...
Lindsey lent out 37 horns, sold eight more at $3 each. Then 60 hunters sallied forth one night last week. For eight hours they stumbled through scrub-oak thickets, squawking dismally. Turkey went along in his campaign suit (double-breasted gabardine) and tan oxfords, stepped gingerly around rain puddles...
...busy week for Britain's royal family. Queen Mary ventured forth to the theater for the first time this year and King George, Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret visited Stratford-on-Avon for the Shakespeare birthday celebrations. Backstage, the King noticed that the Order of the Garter had been improperly laid out on Actor Anthony Quayle's Henry VIII costume. Sitting down on the couch, he told Quayle to roll up his trouser legs, fitted it on correctly with his own hands. Meanwhile Princess Elizabeth was also celebrating a birthday-her 24th-with the Duke of Edinburgh...
Erleigh and Milne, the court found, had shifted the assets of their various companies back & forth to run up the shares of the different companies, and had pocketed hundreds of thousands of pounds in profits. When the empire collapsed, holders of New Union shares lost ?14 million...
These changes do not mean that concentration in History is by any means easier than it was before. A good memory and capacity to absorb a lot of material and spew it forth onto a blue book is still the most valuable asset to a History concentrator...