Word: upon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...experiment came early in a session one day last week. Barely a dozen Senators were on the floor when the Cotton nomination was publicly confirmed without roll-call or debate. Four hours later Montana's Senator Wheeler rushed upon the floor, made loud complaint, had the Cotton confirmation revoked, the nomination reconsidered. Sly Republican Leader Watson's comment: "This is the first fruit of open executive sessions...
...without severe internal convulsions and frantic scenes upon the floor that the House succeeded in obeying the Constitution by passing the Reapportionment bill. The measure, designed to produce a more equitable representation of the People, for a time was burdened with two amendments which would have excluded 15 million U. S. inhabitants from any representation whatsoever. This peculiar perversion of the bill's intent resulted from sectional prejudices and was accomplished by misinterpreting representation according to population as representation according to citizenship...
German Ambassador Herr Doktor Friedrich Wilhelm von Prittwitz und Gaffron, scholar student directing a heavy intellect upon the intricacies of musty international politics. A tall, spare man, stiff and unbending in manner, he could see no sense in reducing the rights of a diplomat...
...song, a sentiment, a story that will live forever. ..." "Jefferson Davis loved the Union with all the devotion of his heart. . . ." "Slavery was not the cause of the war. ..." "Our victory was essentially a victory: of the spirit. . . ." Such were a few of the many words that' fell upon the ears of 4,000 tottering Confederate veterans, their wives and progeny gathered last week in Charlotte, N. C., for their thirty-ninth reunion. They were a lean, wiry lot, with 84-year-old drummer boys as youngsters of the gathering. The U. S. Marine Band played "Dixie." So great...
...this change does not solve the problem. It is still necessary to determine the relative weight of weekly papers and midyear and final examinations. In order to arrive at a correct judgment upon the total record in a course, a value must be assigned to each of its components. Unless the final grade is to be no more than a rough approximation of the true value of the work done in a course, a unit of measurement must be adopted and all letter grades recomputed in terms of that unit. For example, how much weight should be assigned...