Word: upon
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Upon launching his campaign, President Obama stopped smoking. Quite publicly. Letting the world see him chew gum and fidget with his pencils was an invaluable example. I have now practiced long enough to have seen scores of people, more than a few of whom I've loved, get miserably sick and die from tobacco use. I've pointed to the black spot on their X-ray and watched strong men and women collapse, touched the smoke-grown tumors in the operating room, the path lab, even on those poor experimental bunnies' ears and I'm convinced. You can be dubious...
Amid the excited screaming and friendly pillow pummeling, some got a little…well, um, violent. One man took it upon himself to run around swinging two pillows in hand, numchuck style, yelling, “DIE, MOTHERF***ER, DIE!!!” Whoa, calm down there, buddy. That’s a seven-year-old standing next...
...Once upon a time, a young physics concentrator with a penchant for cakes and a talented artist with a smile as big as his tower of hair flew to Paris on a mission to unveil inhalable chocolate to the world. By day they scoured the finest boutiques in Paris for chocolate to use in their product. Money was no object. By night they stayed in a beautiful hotel near the Louvre. When they had all their supplies, the artist and the scientist hand-ground chocolate in preparation for their invention’s big reveal. The day finally came...
...addition, Faust touched upon the University’s year-old Common Space Initiative, which aims to increase the number of venues where both formal and informal gatherings can take place...
...think it was a very good opportunity and is the beginning of a bigger conversation between GSAS and President Faust,” said Zsuzsanna B. Magyar, a second-year regional studies in East Asia student. Faust briefly touched upon the presence of international students at GSAS, emphasizing that the “value of international students at GSAS to GSAS and the University is enormous...