Word: upon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ears of the respected Coty in the course of his official duties. Are the citizens impatient with Reneé Pleven's 16-day effort to form a government? Never fear. M. Pleven has finally named his Cabinet this morning, and the National Assembly has been convoked to pass upon it. Calmly, Coty lays a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, below the chiseled names of battles won long...
Graduate school is professional school. The purely graduate seminars put a premium upon original, creative scholarship and technical ability. In these higher level seminars there is no place for the most intrepid undergraduate. The English and History Departments have already tightened the Ph.D. requirements, in an effort to give the GSAS student a more concentrated and individualized professional training. The Government Department, too, is in the process of revising its program. But whereas graduate training is made more rigorous on its higher levels, the conference courses remain static. Although both graduates and undergrads are nominally subject to the same requirements...
...Brandt, I don't believe for one second that any--except without--I will put it this way: with minor exceptions that there is any additional public works to be decided upon, brought into the appropriations picture and finally that will do anything for this present recession...
Those who agitate for disarmament purely upon ethical bases are doing a disservice to the nation. They are creating the type of distracting atmosphere which led to the ill-fated Kellogg-Briand Pact in 1928, and to the confining Neutrality Acts of the '30's. Some values and principles must have priority over others. If national preservation is the most immediate goal, other ethical principles may have to be, in part, be subordinated to that...
...both planes flying at 300 miles per hour (considerably slower than the speed of the jet airliners which will enter service this winter), three seconds means half a mile. In other words, by the time a pilot can adjust his course to avoid another plane, the other plane is upon him. In addition, the controls of a modern airplane are so complicated as to require a pilot's almost undivided attention. He does not have time to watch for other planes, and when he does, his field of vision is necessarily limited by the dimensions and position of his cockpit...