Word: upon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their confidence of future success might seem highly ridiculous, except for the behavior they utilize to implement their success. They win their Club elections with force and promise of future influence, rather than with character or intelligence. The present activities of the HYRC, in foisting this kind of politician upon society, do not reflect well upon Harvard...
Take any copy of the 1960 Radcliffe Freshman Register. Examine it and you will find that there are 17 complete pages of 16 snapshots on each page. Each participant contributes a dollar, or some other agreed-upon sum, into the pool to enter. Then he chooses a page in the Register. The game starts on a certain date agreed upon in advance. To win the game, the contestant must date, on Friday or Saturday nights, four girls in a line, vertically, horizontally, or diagonally. These dates must include the hours from 8 to 11 p.m., and be verified...
...Richard Hooker, speaking from the pulpit, said that "Rule there cannot be which public approbation has not made so." Firm adherence to this principle must be reiterated occasionally. Mr. Lodge, from a large pulpit, has underscored the dogma in unequivocal terms. Such explicit assertion is essential, for illegality thrives upon that silence which is often interpreted as tacit assent...
...family property--perhaps symbolically, a back alley--and spending the money on a spree. Mr. Barton's performance in the role is a little incoherent, a fact which may be excused on the grounds that the cute little Irishisms and maunderings about the homeland which he is called upon to utter must have proved thoroughly repulsive to an actor of his stature and experience. I am not sure whether McLiam means it so, but the heart attack which strikes Muldoon down is certainly a well-deserved judgment...
...said that the paper quoted him falsely as saying that he did not have "a legal leg to stand on." Although this was changed in later articles to "the State Department, in his opinion, did not have a legal leg to stand upon," the Herald did not mention that this was a correction, Worthy claimed...