Word: upon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Britain's "good offices" representative, Middle East Expert Harold Beeley. Though the French insisted the discussion must be limited to Tunisia, Murphy carried with him a State Department brief, stamped "secret," on Algeria. This week, after he has decided upon a joint plan of action with the British, Murphy will move on to Paris and Tunisia...
...Francisco. The Teachers Association of San Francisco, oldest and boldest of the city's four teacher organizations, launched a bristling attack upon some other targets. Among them: ¶ Automatic promotion : "The elementary teachers are told that a child must not fail nor be held back because he will be 'unhappy.' But will he be happy when he reaches the upper grades and finds himself still unable to read effectively?" ¶ The dogma that the school is responsible for the "whole" child: "As long as instruction for social living takes precedence over those subjects which are designed...
...cross on the floor mosaics, a practice that the church prohibited A.D. 427 on the ground that the feet of worshipers profaned the sacred symbol. A second indication is the floor plan-a long rectangle in the manner of 4th century Roman temples. Definite dating must wait upon other scholars and future excavations...
...which it favors far more than trading with Red China. But last week, as Congress began hearings on extension of the reciprocal-trade act (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), prospects were that exports to the U.S. will be cut rather than raised. To plead their case, ten gentlemen from Japan called upon U.S. officials in Washington to tell them about what is happening to the little town of Tsu-bame-and thereby told a tale of how even a small U.S. tariff change can bring economic disaster abroad...
...refuses, and the army is forced to convene a court-martial and invent enough evidence to support the charges. Convicted of high treason, Captain Dreyfus is publicly degraded and stripped of rank in the presence of the Minister of War himself, General Mercier, who looks down with cool indifference upon the ruined man, apparently not in the least concerned by new evidence, just handed to him, which proves Esterhazy guilty and Dreyfus innocent. Indifferently, the general turns away. "We must protect the institution," he bristles self-righteously, "even at the expense of the individual." And so Dreyfus is shipped away...