further to = "in addition to; besides" ?

[Joel S. Berson]

At 10/23/2010 04:31 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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>On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Jonathan Lighter
><wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Further to the
> > defeat of Germany and its allies
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>Nonsense. But it is nice to know that "war _was_ seen ... as the way ..."
>
>That means that isn't anybody going to study war anymore, I reckon.

Shame on you, Wilson!  That's "ain't gonna study war no more".  :-)

(I find it hard to credit that, as given by
http://www.negrospirituals.com/news-song/study_war_no_more.htm, the
line is really "Ain't *going* to study war no more".  That doesn't swing.)

Joel

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