Word: upon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME will print photographs when, upon the news of a given week, it sheds more light and interest than the factual imagination of TIME'S artist's pen & pencil. 2) Subscriber Rasche suggests unphotographical scenes of the kind which, when of proper significance, TIME's artist will execute...
...call upon you to return to the precedent established by Jefferson. The annual issuance of the religious document known as the Thanksgiving Proclamation is highly offensive to many loyal American citizens who do not believe in God. To recommend that these Atheists gather in places of worship and give thanks to a being whose existence they deny is not in keeping with the secular spirit of our godless Constitution...
...RESOLVED: That the action of the Senator from Connecticut in placing Mr. Charles L. Eyanson upon the official rolls of the Senate at the time and in the manner set forth ... is contrary to good morals and senatorial ethics and tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute and such conduct is hereby condemned...
...particularly exercised over the increasing standardization of American production and even goes so far as to deplore President Hoover's campaign to reduce varieties of pipe fitting from 17,000 to 610. Perhaps this reviewer is biased, but an intimate acquaintance with a summer water supply dependent upon the cooperation of a Michigan-made pump and the usual New Hampshire assortment of pipe fittings makes him side definitely with the administration on this point...
...selection of Professor Fay by the Bureau of International Research reflects an honor upon a man who has proved himself to be a brilliant and indefatigable scholar. Indeed there are many who will wonder what origins of the world war Professor Fay could have overlooked in his two widely known volumes on the subject. To the lay mind his work has the stamp of absolute finality...