Word: upon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Artist Rowe's Isaiah, Jeremiah, Elisha, etc. appear as sickly souls ... All the marks of the machine age are upon them...
...most interesting possibility of all is the effect of greater leisure upon interest in the arts. A nation on a 30-hour week will have more opportunity to pursue a multitude of arts, from gardening to painting and writing, than any people has ever possessed...
Somebody dubbed the little group "The Flying Squadrons." They move throughout the city on a sound truck and alight upon precinct after precinct, ringing individual doorbells and selling their candidate to whoever answers. They are all well-trained and courtcous; as students, they figure it is their business to know the questions that people might ask, and to be prepared to answer them...
...aggregation such as the soccer squad must be sized up and conditioned for play in an exceptionally short period of time. Because the coach has very little pre-season information on the team, the overall success of the squad depends on the ability of the coach to decide upon his best starting lineup early in the season and then work them together...
...Tobacco Tycoon James Buchanan Duke (Bull Durham, Duke's Mixture, Lucky Strikes) stood upon a hill three miles west of Durham, N.C. and silently gazed out over the wooded acres about him. Finally he turned to his companion and said: "This is the place...