Word: upon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wood-panelled study and points proudly to a recent translation of his work in Chinese. "You can even read my yarns in Hindustani now," the genial professor smiles. In fact, volumes of his "yarns," the name which Sorokin fondly attaches to his theories, together with translations and commentaries upon them, occupy almost all of the space on the shelves. Sorokin picks up a new work by Ortega y Gasset, which he has been asked to review, and he suggests that perhaps the Spanish social thinker may have "borrowed" some of his ideas, though y Gasset doesn't acknowledge any influence...
Judge Potter Stewart, 43, who as chairman of the Yale Daily News in 1936-37 had his own college-day brushes with reporting, wrote the decision. He acknowledged that "compulsory disclosure of a journalist's confidential sources may entail an abridgment of press freedom by imposing some limitation upon the availability of news." But "the duty of a witness to testify in a court of law has roots as deep as the guarantee of a free press," which justifies "some impairment" of the First Amendment (on press freedom...
...professional donors and more than three months of careful processing and testing by highly trained technicians. Because this is a truly lifesaving product, we felt we must, in all conscience, make it available. It was not up to us to decide that $50, $100, $200 or even more (depending upon the amount of fibrinogen needed) is too high a price for a man to pay to save his wife's life...
...forks and mustaches (a favorite theme he has found laughable ever since he watched German soldiers primping for the Kaiser's birthday). Discovering that the laws of chance underlie much in nature, Arp turned out a series of paste-ups produced by letting bits of paper float down upon a glue-coated board. Later he meticulously executed paper cutouts, was terribly upset when they began yellowing and spotting with age. He reacted by trying to incorporate time into his work by crumbling the paper in advance. "I realized one cannot achieve an absolute result. One must include death...
...against inflation, have increased in value as the dollar has declined. U.S. museums spend from $10 million to $20 million a year on new purchases, thus leave the market thinner. Even tax rulings contribute. An antique buyer may sign over his purchase to an institution that will receive it upon his death, take a deduction each year while he keeps it in his home and continues to enjoy it. Or the antique owner can make a "partial donation," leave his possessions in a museum for the summer, keep them himself in the winter...