Word: upon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past, medical men have learned to preserve isolated tissues--red blood cells of skin tissue, for example--by saturating them with glycerol and freezing them solid. Upon rewarming, these tissues have been brought back to life...
Students must decide well in advance whether they will accept the option, Kluckhohn remarked. The time tentatively set for this decision is after return from spring vacation, and papers would be due upon the date of the final examination. Every If the plan is approved, Kluckhohn said the mid-year, exams will be given next year, as he feels students should have some experience with examinations...
Denigrated Ladies. Based upon the Wolfenden Report published 18 months ago (TIME, Sept. 16, 1957), Butler's 600-word bill covers prostitutes and the pimps who live on their earnings, has nothing to say about the other subject raised by Wolfenden: the prevalence of homosexuality. The maximum ?2 ($5.60) fine for prostitution, which has been on the books since 1840, would now be increased to ?25 and three months in jail, and no longer would a cop have to prove that the girls were "annoying" anyone...
...young man with health fads, began delving into the Spartan training of the Zen Buddhist priests. By 1951, at the age of 55, he had built up a whole philosophy around the navel's influence on health. He started the Hesoten (literally, Navel Heaven) Society, swooped down upon factory and-office to proclaim that "the heaven-pointed navel receives blessings therefrom." The navel, he told his growing audiences, is "a medal of culture with which every person is born. Polish it. Value...
Last week Murata's long-awaited book on his philosophy finally came out, and though copies of it were snatched up, its author was no longer alone in the navel business. One of Japan's top beauticians, Mrs. Aiko Yamano, hit upon the idea of mixing a perfumed olive oil with a bit of lanolin and persuading women to pour a few drops into their navels before retiring. She called her oil "BB" for Brigitte Bardot. Girls in their 20s, she found, began sprouting pimples in spite of this treatment, but women over 30 developed clear, smooth skins...