Word: upon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...started college just at that time. I didn't know what I was going to do. There was a sort of aimlessness among college students. We didn't know what we were studying for." His voice trailed off, and in its wanderings came upon a world of memories...
...leading lights of proud Spanish intellectual circles and a member of the group that welcomed the Duke of Wellington as a national hero when he arrived to drive out Napoleon's troops. The victorious Wellington returned to London in 1814, carrying hundreds of gifts showered upon him by the grateful Spanish. Among them was the Muse. For generations it hung almost forgotten in impressive Strat-field Saye House, the Wellington family seat near Reading, In 1952 Spain's Duke of Alba visited Stratfield, and spotted the painting, told Ric Brown, then a Harvard Ph.D. studying in Europe, about...
...literary voice of Rumer (Black Narcissus) Godden is soft, gentle and low, and so are her subjects-sensitive children, nuns, quietly contented families and the timeless tranquillities of India and England. It is always something of a shock when her characters come upon the worm of experience in the apple of innocence. But find it they do. After that Author Godden usually chucks the reader under his chin and reminds him that the world of man really began with a little knowledge of good and evil...
...ranging from a few years to 16, going to France with their mother for a summer holiday. Mrs. Grey gets bitten by a horsefly and lands in the hospital, leaving the children to manage as best they can without Mum in a nearby pension on the Marne. For page upon page, everything hums along with the summery warmth of semifantasy. Greengage plums drop from the tree with juicy plops, the barges of the Marne glide noiselessly over the sunny water. The owner of the pension, Mademoiselle Zizi, has a rich and handsome young English lover named Eliot, who takes...
Both Bloomberg and Stephen R. Salomon '58, director of this summer's flight, pointed out last night that the charge concerned Besso only, and, even if acted upon, would have no direct effect on the 1958 plane trip, for which Salomon has made a separate application to the C.A.B...