Word: upon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lowest. Unless we make these assumptions, it seems impossible to account for the facts that in his writings he gives almost no portrayal of or allusion to anything of real importance in Indian history, culture or life; and that he seems to take pleasure in heaping ridicule upon the educated classes...
Near Royal, Ill., a turtle climbed upon the west rail of a Chicago & Eastern Illinois R. R. track, sat down. Along putputted a "trouble car" carrying one H. Duncan, telephone workman, at 20 m. p. h. Workman Duncan was derailed...
Taken to a hospital and given an electric bath, he remained unconscious for hours, finally muttered incoherent tales. One was that while he was asleep two men had entered, committed violence upon him. Signs in his room of a violent struggle belied this. Another was that he had met a stranger outside his flat, invited him in for a drink, was having a peaceful conversation when the stranger knocked him down, sat on his chest, carved his face with a razor...
...year apartment in Manhattan. Said his janitor last week: "There was a constant stream of women and girls running into the building after him. Lots of them were beauties, too. But he was never there. It got to be a real nuisance, I can tell you." Upon further Health Department warning, he closed his Emanuel Institute...
...Graf Zeppelin kept north of war-troubled Manchuria, reached the sea, cut south down the Japanese Archipelago. The Japanese Government asked Commander Eckener by radio if he approved being cited "the guest of the nation." He replied that he preferred "a few hours' rest and sleep first." However, upon landing courtesy obliged him to eat dried chestnuts, dried cuttle fish, drink saki...