Word: upon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...argued fiercely, meaning that the King himself should be under no man, but under God and the law. Now, in July 1957, the U.S. was issuing another call to greatness. The U.S. was proposing that nations should submit themselves to nothing less than a system of world law based upon the concepts that Lord Kilmuir had so cogently defined...
...Palace Yard (called "new" to distinguish William Rufus' building from Edward the Confessor's old palace that once stood near by), excitedly discussing the speeches they had heard. Then they dispersed to a week of other meetings, other speeches, other trips to see sights that were variants upon the struggle for rule of law: the Tower of London, where Sir Thomas More, great lawyer and judge, was imprisoned by Henry VIII before his head was cut off, parboiled, and impaled upon a pole on London Bridge for several months for all to see; the Inns of Court...
...Harvard Joint Program will present an organ recital by George Faxon, Wednesday, August 7, at 8:30 pm in MIT's Kresge Hall. Privilege cards will admit Summer School students and their wives or husbands. Harvard corporation appointees may gain admittance upon application for pass at Greys Hall 1. Tickets for the general public will cost 75 cents, sold at the door...
Suffering Psyche. In thrusting stardom upon her, Hollywood has put Kim under a weight of emotional pressure that few young women are called upon to bear. Before every picture, she works herself up to a nervous, racehorse tension and bursts into anxious tears. During production she worries and glooms to the point of nausea. She throws tantrums on the set and off. Says a writer who knew Kim on the way up: "She's been like a quiz contestant who has won all the money before she's been asked any questions. Then, every time they...
...Once upon a time, in the magic realm of California, there was a grown-up heady boy named Walt Disney who set out to create the happiest place on earth. So he went into his countinghouses and to his moneylenders, and he collected millions of dollars. Then he ordered his royal artists and carpenters to build a whimsical wonderland of spaceships to the moon and Mark Twain river boats, of mechanical monkeys and bobbing hippos, of moated castles, wilderness forts and make-believe jungles. All the children, young and old, came to visit this happy place, called Disneyland. And Walt...