Word: thereupon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...neon-sign manufacturer, agreed. "Business conditions," said he, "are still at a high level." But industries "are tightening up . . . weeding out the misfits and incompetents . . . Job opportunities are still here, but you'll have to beat the bushes more efficiently and thoroughly than last year's graduates." Thereupon, he took up the problem of just what the efficient bushbeater should...
...Connecticut Yankee" is the kind of film which you either view with mild amusement or dislike roundly. This is because it is culled from an excellent book and some people, finding the picture not up to the stratospheric standard of the book, thereupon turn violently against it. I, being merely a partisan and not a worshipper of Sam Clemens, could still scrape up a few chuckles...
...Greene." Thereupon the Great Man grunted a "How d'you do?"-and the interview was over...
...Pulling out of his rambling frame palace, he rushed to grab the most commanding site in town, the five-story Gran Hotel Costa Rica, then set up headquarters in the Pacific Railway station. Isolating the forts, he laid siege to the troops inside. Some rebels quickly deserted. Thereupon Figueres attacked and Cardona immediately surrendered...
...Thereupon Stevens proceeded to release the violent pressure on his stern New England conscience. State auditors who had just examined Andover's books reported a shortage of $3,295.28. Nor were the Andover books the only ones in trouble: a recent state report showed that 21 towns had acquired deficits of more than $62,000, in one way or another...