Word: whereupon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...purgings of previous generations," continued the pathologist, is the custom of making all victims of heart attacks stay in bed for six weeks. Very often a doctor finds a patient with failure of the left side of the heart sitting up in a chair and orders him to bed, "whereupon the patient proceeds to suffocate." Another lethal effect of bed rest : pneumonia caused by collection of fluid in the lungs. This is why sick oldsters should not stay in bed "one hour longer than necessary." They should sit up part of the time and let such fluid run down toward...
...cowman's contemptuous word for oleomargarine is bull butter. Last fall the Iowa Farm Bureau, to whom the cow is sacred, got Iowa State College to suppress a scientific pamphlet praising bull butter as a wartime labor saver (TIME, Oct. 11). Whereupon Professor Theodore Schultz, head of the college's famed, farm-focused Department of Economics and Sociology, declared that faculty morale was jeopardized and switched to the University of Chicago. By last week 19 other teachers had quit the college on leave or permanently. Twelve were from Professor Schultz's department, whose remnant inevitably seems cowed...
Transcriptions of popular U.S. programs like the Hit Parade came through with the commercial plugs neatly excised. Whereupon the G.I.s complained: they were homesick for commercials. A sergeant named Buell Snyder, who used to be a professional contest winner in private life, volunteered to fill the bill. His versions of commercials have been a resounding success. Sample...
...stirs up a magnetic field going around the wire like the brass rings on a Burmese hillwoman's neck. Prof. Ehrenhaft says that, in turn, there is an electric current going around any magnetic field. He places the poles of a magnet one above the other in water-whereupon small, electrically-charged bubbles go round and round the magnetic field between the poles...
...from a grenade he was about to hurl with his right hand when he was wounded in the left hand. Perplexed, he decided to walk to the aid station, keeping the grenade immobilized by continuing to grasp the lever in his right palm. Anxious medics hurriedly stitched the wound, whereupon Duebec walked back . . . relieved everyone by chucking the grenade into enemy positions...