Word: upon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...portrayed me as a tasteless, witless and publicity-hungry exhibitionist; you have done a vast disservice to any fair public concept of the dignity and responsibility of our courts and the earnest hard-working men who sit on them. You have literally stripped me in public and have forced upon me, a justice of a supreme court, the highly distasteful and undignified task of publicly defending myself...
...Sara Murray to get to be a doctor at all. She knew that was what she wanted to be from age twelve, when she saw a fellow worshiper convulsed by an epileptic seizure in a Newton, Mass, church. But that was in 1896, when women doctors were still frowned upon. Sara's carriage-builder father told her to forget the idea. After breezing through Radcliffe in three years, she pursued her second love, philology, took a Ph.D. at the University of Munich. There, too, she met and married Lawyer Sebastian Jordan, had her only child, Mary Stuart Jordan...
...handoff, completed a 26-yard pass play to Webster. On the next play, Skypeck, on a beautifully faked keep play, rushed over from the five-yard line. For all intents and purposes, however, the game ended when Taylor completed his pass to Juvonen. With this play, Cornell hit upon the varsity's main weakness and used it later in the game to rally their winning touchdown...
...Adams, the dynamo; for Brussels, the atom. Unlike the Chicago's World's Fair of 1900, the Exposition's first impression upon a visitor its huge aluminum-covered replica of an atom, the official symbol...
...professor then explained the normal course of study for an undergraduate interested in history: In his first two years he takes the prescribed course of study for all those concentrating in history; at the end of his second year he chooses his particular field of interest. Upon graduation, he is considered qualified to teach history in high school, the speaker said...