Word: upon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, being that fixture on the Harvard Square scene, perched upon her milk crates next to Yenching, asking day after day--perhaps 1,000 times daily--for a bit of your spare change...
...Over and over. I would even dictate impassioned editor's notes (like this) in my head. At the time, I didn't think I was making much progress, but I did have one, self-loathing thought about my life: what a tremendous snob I've turned out to be! Upon my return, I realized that I had, actually, learned something useful from all that mind-grinding. I should (A) never travel alone and (B) reinvent myself. And so that was it. A new semester, a new me; J.P., post-pretentious...
...tutors begins in the fall including: "Program I Award Peer Tutors" with a commitment of 45 hrs. per year (usually chemistry, economics, math, and physics) and make $700 per year; "Program II On-Call Tutors" tutor in a wide variety of courses and amount of work they do depends upon availability, $12 per hour; "Program III ESL Tutors" work on language skills primarily with graduate students for whom English is their second language, commit to a minimum of 40 hours per year and profit $600 per year...
Harvard will still be left to contend with sophomore midfielder Katharina Lindner, and senior forward Tory Munro. Lindner and Munro--who are tied for second on the team in points with six apiece--will be looked upon to pick up the slack for Hartford...
During the course of her hour-long speech, which was followed by a question-and-answer period, Faludi expounded upon the thesis of Stiffed, arguing that neither men nor feminists are to blame for the current crisis of manliness in America...