Word: upon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...compensation, Stevens concentrates upon Anne's metamorphosis from child to woman, on her love affair with Peter, a young boy confined with the Franks in the garret. While certainly present in the actual diary, these elements were in relatively small proportion...
Reading for the course will depend, to a great extent, upon the courses students are taking. After studying a few basic works which exemplify rhetorical devices, students will analyze their other readings in terms of linguistic effects...
...Asmara, Eritrea, Ethiopia, a conference of 83 delegates from 32 church bodies met to consider relations with Islam and give forth a message "to all our brothers in Christ." Excerpts: "We call upon all the Christian churches in the Middle East to play a full part in national self-fulfillment . . . We urge the churches of the Middle East and individual Christians to recognize the points of involvement between Islamic and Christian doctrine . . . With penitence and humility we confess our need for a new spirit of respect and friendship for Moslems, through which the barriers of suspicion and fear will disappear...
...Allen ducked down to the basement. There, in an area that was originally used for storage, is the most famed space-instrument laboratory in the U.S. The walls have turned a dingy yellow; the ceilings and walls are laced with pipes and conduits. In one room were stacks upon stacks of tape recordings of satellite data, neatly sorted according to tracking station-Singapore, Ibadan, Lima, Heidelberg. In another, students pored over the squiggly lines that are man's first clues to the geography of outer space. Other students tested electrical components no bigger than grains of rice, soldering them...
Hole in Space. Widely popular in a profession full of jealousies, Van Allen has a cheerful scorn for his new-found importance. Recently, he told a solemn gathering of scientists, he had been asked for a definition of space. "After a vast research program, which depended very heavily upon the use of a number of highspeed computers, I am pleased to offer you the result: 'Space is that in which everything else is.' In other words, 'Space is the hole that...