Word: forthwith
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...This Advisory Committee shall meet and propose the rules or changes in the same, on the first Saturday in March in each year, and shall submit the said proposed rules or changes to the secretary of the Intercollegiate Association, on or before the first Saturday in April, to be forthwith transmitted by him to the respective college Associations before the spring meeting of the Intercollegiate Association, to occur on the first Saturday in May. At that meeting, the said proposed rules or changes shall be acted upon and be returned by the Intercollegiate Association, with its approval or disapproval...
...earlier catalogues. At that time students had college names, "just as the monks had their monastic names," and were not permitted to speak English within college limits. "When Comfort and Giles, in running "across the college yard, chaffed each "other in their mother tongue, Consolantius and Aegidius were forthwith "summoned to the president's office, "and, after receiving a suitabel reprimand in the Latin of the period, were "subjected to such corporeal discipline "under the eye or the hand of the president as then commended itself to the "average Puritan and Anglo-Saxon "mind." With the abandonment of this custom...
...society should carry on its business for the rest of the year on a greatly reduced scale, but after full discussion, have decided that such a course is inexpedient, believing that the only sure way of avoiding a deficit, and a consequent assessment, is to close the business forthwith...
...having the where-withal to purchase drinks, remained thirsty. But at last a happy thought occurred to the last man, and laying aside his toga, he jumped into the air and performed such wonderful tricks that the people were amazed, and loud and long was the applause. Forthwith the other members of the band, seizing the opportunity, passed around their hats, and numerous shekels fell there-in from the delighted populace, wherewithal the thirsty were made refreshed. And so they marched along, and great crowds came out upon the walls of the cities as they passed by, until they came...
...print," the generous impulse prompts an offer of the volume discussed, It may be the listener suggests that he would like to know more on the subject. "You ought to read such and such passages," says the happy owner, and the borrower carries the book home, and forthwith it mingles with his own and is merged and lost. Such a thing even as the loan of a borrowed book is not unusual, though it ought to be regarded as a social crime. Who that prides himself on his books has not painful vacancies among them? Here it is the second...