Word: upon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next level of attack is on the matter of economy. Some people, upon seeing a chair or a desk 70 years old, feel automatically urged, by a kind of reflex action, to buy a new one. Others like myself, equally automatically, would cherish it, looking forward to the day when it will...
...postmarking and she lovingly stamped each with a small green Christmas tree cachet and the legend "Glory to God in the Highest." But then the Post Office Department informed her coldly that as a postal employee, she was not allowed by regulations to place "personal or unofficial indorsements" upon mail. Mrs. Tucker was crestfallen. Last week she wrote the Tampa Daily Times...
Georgia O'Keeffe, a plain-spoken lady who looks as severe as her own paintings, played a modest part in the festivities. She stood up when called upon and said: ''This is a gift from Stieglitz. It is for the students of this university. I hope you will go and look at these paintings more than once...
...object of this exertion isn't apparent at all times," the captain said, "but the team that rolls the ball through the goal is considered to have gained something of an advantage." Hitting people with the sticks is frowned upon in the sport, and the Mill Street A. A. shys away from close contact with their opponents...
...taking undue honors upon himself, Mr. Dulles has not only breached the good faith on which our bi-partisan foreign policy was formed, but he has been unjust to these Republicans, such as Senator Vandenberg, who truly have a right to their party's share of the credit. Arthur J. Marter...