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Keen supporters of this explanation of Shakespeare's famous lost years -- of which there are several, mostly mad -- point to the evidence of the initials "WS" carved into the bark of the great Lady Oak and still visible to the keen eye to this day.

Detractors of this theory point out that another member of the Fairfax household, his son's tutor, a Walter Stukesly, can claim the same initials.

The envelope was larger and squarer than the ones commonly sold in stores, and because it was made of thick, expensive paper, my initial response was to think there might be a wedding invitation or a birth announcement inside.

A few ideas about what the initials stood for flashed through my mind, but I kept them to myself.

The Gish name was initially the source of some mystification.

Before we leave, I hand my professor a present, a tan briefcase with his initials on the front.

The first symptoms are followed several days later by the anthrax "eclipse," a period in which the initial discomfort seems to fade, concealing the approaching danger.

At the other end, Greer does all he can to distract us from the initial blow to the reader’s suspension of disbelief, the anatomical grotesquerie of a woman giving birth to a full-sized old man.

We can’t form a new country, but we were initially created out of the state of New Hampshire.

While the performances in the venue's tiny back room were initially slanted toward various world musics (reflective of what you might hear in a Paris Metro station), an influx of local jazzers means there's always a 50 percent chance of a downbeat.

Of the six people for whom a petition was filed, a judge issued three orders for an initial 30-day involuntary commitment.

Though he initially gave the Law Lord a very narrow remit, strictly confined to the circumstances of the death of the scientist, the more broadly and impersonally that the Law Lord ranges, the more it will tend to suit Tony Blair.

However, if the positive shifts in public opinion in Texas and Arizona are any indication, the President may be able to overcome initial conservative resentment toward a plan derided as amnesty for illegals.

Albee was initially unable to get an American producer, and The Zoo Story premiered in Germany on a double bill with Krapp's Last Tape ( Marriage Play and Three Tall Women would also receive their first per formances in Europe - in Vienna in 1987 and 1991); in New York three months later it received the mixed reviews that would become customary, but nevertheless was a word-of-mouth success.

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