Word: upon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...town." Warned a lawyer for Pickford's Ltd.: "While I hardly think he is a threat to Pickford's, one must remember that my firm was also started by an enterprising young man with a horse and cart." With the big truckers' legal eyes boring in upon him, Licensing Authority John Hanlon found an easy way out of the impasse. Young Derek Wiscombe had worked too hard at his menial tasks to bother keeping his accounts straight, could produce' no documentary evidence that his services were needed. Hanlon forthwith denied the application...
...their academic record-a record that has followed them from their very first days of school. "With more and more guys graduating from college," says Columbia Senior Peter Earth, "you're no longer looked up to if you went to college. You're just looked down upon if you didn't get a degree." But a simple bachelor's degree is not really enough. At Harvard, where only one in 100 students now qualifies for the once accepted gentleman's average of C, seven out of ten intend to go on to graduate school...
...Animal Rescue Societies by the Medical Laboratories in Massachusetts. It is to say that some of the profoundest thinkers on the troubles of our times have pointed out a peril involved in scientific animal experimentation which does not clearly face the meaning of the physical torture it is based upon, and that such residual indifference to suffering is a breeder for the gas chamber and human lamp-shade...
...first of the plays, The Words Upon The Window-Pane, is far and away the best. Written in prose and naturalistic in form, the work reflects Yeats' lifelong preoccupation with spiritualism by restaging a seance in modern Dublin. The seance is disturbed by the intrusion of a "hostile spirit," who turns out to be Jonathan Swift. It is a wonderfully gripping work, with an atmosphere both eerie and convincing...
...Council--or its president--insists on continuing its new policy of closed meetings, it can only be construed as an attempt to keep the press out and keep its constituents in the dark. The opportunity to close meetings should be used sparingly, if at all, and should be voted upon by the members...