Word: upon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even ex-President Conant says not a word about the greatness of Harvard, but concludes his piece on the Tercentenary Celebration by, "Indeed, there are many who declared that the entire day had been an historic occasion. But as I look back upon it, of only one thing I am absolutely sure: it really rained...
...John R. Baker of the Montgomery County (Md.) Unitarian Church was reading the Oct. 7 issue of TIME in the quiet of his study when his eyes came upon these words from Little Rock's Presbyterian Minister Dunbar H. Ogden Jr.: "This may be looked back upon by future historians as the turning point-for good -of race relations in this country. If the Supreme Court's interpretation of the Constitution can be made good in Little Rock, then it can be made good in Arkansas. If it can be made good in Arkansas, then eventually...
...Upon Dwight Eisenhower converged all the frets, frustrations and fears of a suddenly fretful and frustrated people. His first duty was to stop the cries of hysteria. His second, and most important, responsibility was to re-examine the U.S. position in a world where space flight-whatever its immediate practical value- has temporarily become the enemy's exclusive capability...
...Edwin A. Walker, Commander of Occupation Troops." Because of the sneering (and incorrect) address. Walker, a tough Texan, returned the letter unopened. Governor Faubus, playing his little game, had already released it to the press. Two days later, asked for documented facts, the governor fell back upon his favorite saying: "I do not choose to release them at this time." He did, however, display news photographs of a paratrooper general and aides walking past girls playing softball outside the school. What connection could these pictures have with his other charges? Said Faubus with rubber logic: "There...
...young Indiana school teacher. In the years just preceding the Civil War he deserts his college sweetheart to marry a designing Southern heiress. After war breaks out, she goes insane, crosses the lines with their young son, and ends up in a madhouse. Whereupon our hero hits upon the questionable scheme of enlisting in the Union Army so he can go south to find her. Of course he does, and after some further unlikely accidents it all ends happily enough...