Word: whereupon
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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After his graduation from College Mr. Donham entered the Law School and received his degree in 1901, whereupon he entered the legal department of the Old Colony Trust Company. He has been for many years the vice-president of the company, and he is now director in several other large concerns, including the Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, the Clinchfield Coal Company, the Haverhill Gaslight Company, and the Raymond and Whitcomb Company. He is president of the Dallas Electric Company. During the war he acted for a time as assistant executive manager of the Massachusetts Committee of Public Safety. More recently...
...repair it, but very soon the trembling of the bed and the rattling of the windows as the ensigns double past below drives sleep away again. Mumbling an earnest prayer or so for the future bliss of the disturbers the victim begins to go to sleep once more, whereupon the nocturnal School lines up below his windows and does its calisthenics to the hearty voice of the one in command...
...while in another town there may be many men of the same trade who do not know where to turn for their own kind of work and are therefore forced into unskilled labor. Workmen are hired largely on chance and necessarily a large percentage are bound to be unsatisfactory, whereupon they are promptly discharged and new men taken on in an equally careless way. This creates a very large turnover of labor that is wasteful to the employers and demoralizing to the men. Now that the Government is an unusually large employer and has on hand, the business of winning...
...chance to apply a college education to practical purposes and solve at one and the same time the Seniors' problem, the Freshmen's problem, and the problem of the middleman. The Student Council should each year appoint a day on which Seniors and Freshmen should assemble in the Yard, whereupon mahogany desks and brass bedsteads might start upon another cycle to the mutual benefit of erstwhile and henceforth owners...
...football this year, and humbled her opponents by plunges through the line and outside of the tackles. Maulbetsch, left halfback, crashed through Vanderbilt's defence, time and time again, ripping open her line for long consistent gains. Michigan's attack was stopped once at the twenty-yard line, whereupon Splawn dropped over a pretty field goal...