Word: whereupon
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...students last spring for his anti-German speech in the Diet, met with the same fate today in the splendid building on the Ringstrasse, which the University has just taken possession of. In the course of his inaugural lecture he referred to the "unpleasant events" of last term, whereupon some hundreds of the students burst out as before into cries of "Pereat" and cheers for their "German" Professors. About 300 of them then rose and left the room, but when Dr. Maassen ordered the doors to be closed they returned and forced them open. Fegular fighting then began between those...
...lecture, suddenly arrested his flow of oratory, and addressing one of the students, said, "Pray, Mr. Johnson, what is your opinion of the position of the animals just described, in the created scale?" "Mr. Johnson" was forced to say that "really he had no views whatever on the subject." Whereupon the professor, turning to a second unattentive student - who had evidently not caught "Mr. Johnson's" reply or its purport - said, "Mr. Smith, what is your opinion of the position of these animals in the classified series?" "Oh, sir," replied the innocent Smith, "my opinions exactly coincide with those just...
...waiters at Memorial was handed over to the tender mercies of the law last evening. It seems he was discharged by Mr. Balch, but before leaving undertook to break into the place where the waiters' clothes were kept, whereupon he was promptly removed by the steward. As he continued to be troublesome two officers were summoned and given charge over...
...soon he used the word again, and this time he gave the accent as it is usually given, on the first syllable. Justice Woods, who sits next to Justice Gray, noticing this variation in the lawyer's pronounciation, whispered to Justice Gray, "He pronounced it right the first time." Whereupon Justice Gray said, "What college were you educated at, may I ask?" "At Yale," replied Justice Woods. "Ah! I thought so," said Justice Gray.-[Washington Capital...
...Freeman was surprised at the resemblance between England and America, whereupon some of the English journals remarked that English ideas had been slowly spreading in the United States, at least in New England, and others said that, on the contrary, England was becoming Americanized - or, to use a synonymous term, going to the dogs. We have noticed one similarity of late that seems to favor the latter view. When, on the evening of the late State election in Massachusetts, large crowds were assembled in Boston in front of the screens on which the latest returns were cast by the lime...