Word: thereupon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they would strap two electrodes to the subject's chest, one above the heart's top, the other about six inches lower. From the electrodes ran 60-ft. wires to a "cardiotachometer," which Dr. Boas devised. Vacuum tubes in the cardiotachometer amplified the heart action current which thereupon operated a counting device and a recording pen. The long wires enabled the subject to practice most of his usual occupations. The counter recorded the total number of his heart beats over any desired period (most importantly for study, during sleep). The pen indicated on a moving strip of paper...
...bakers and grocers who receive their yeast from the Fleischmann company. Bakers are visited daily; grocers triweekly. A transportation subsidiary and 900 agencies see to it that contacts are never broken. In March 1918, a blizzard struck Chicago, kept the 41 Fleischmann delivery trucks in their garages. Thereupon the Fleischmann Chicago personnel equipped itself with yeast-packed satchels, made a door-to-door journey to Fleischmann customers...
...President, the House of Representatives has passed House Bill 2667 ... in which the concurrence of the Senate is requested." Thereupon Clerk Chaffee passed his document over to the Senate attendant, bowed again from the waist, smiled, backed out of the door...
Fortnight ago in Atlantic City, a Mrs. Tillie Anapol's baby son was hospitalized for diphtheria. She demanded to stay with him, but was of course ejected. She thereupon got a ladder, placed it against a window of the isolation ward, spent five nights and days on the ladder top, soothing, encouraging, comforting her young. Press photographers, marveling at such devotion, came to take her picture, drove her away...
Gratification came last week to Professor P. I. Preobrajenski, famed Russian geologist. For last week near Perm in the Ural Mountains (the mountain chain which divides European from Asiatic Russia) Professor Preobrajenski discovered oil. Thereupon the Soviet Supreme Economic Council bestowed upon him a reward (a "gratification") of 10,000 rubles (approximately $5,000). The Professor was "gratified" rather than "paid" because of the prevailing theory that services to the Russian state are recompensed by promotion and power rather than by so capitalistic an invention as capital...