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Word: whereon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grant Park (named for Confederate Colonel L. P. Grant-no relation of Ulysses S. Grant-who designed the city's defense fortifications), the 50-foot by 150-foot Cyclorama, whereon is depicted the Battle of Atlanta in exact, stupendous detail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Crossroad Town | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...Chinese insufficiently appreciate conditions whereon victory is based-national unity, sacrifice and discipline. The Chinese have unity, but have not attained sufficient sacrifice," said the Premier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Insufficient Sacrifice | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

...towards him-Sir Gerald Woods Wollaston, Garter Principal King of Arms; the Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal of England; the Earl of Ancaster, Lord Great Chamberlain; the Earl of Derby and the Marquess of Londonderry, two senior peers. They shuffled into position, marched up the aisle towards the woolsack whereon sat Viscount Hailsham, Lord Chancellor, speaker of the House of Lords. At each three steps they paused to bow. When at last they reached the woolsack, Earl Baldwin knelt, got up, moved to a reading desk where a clerk sonorously summoned him "to sit among the Lords of the realm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Retirement for Two | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

That his sardonic mind can also generate constructive ideas, Dr. Hooton proved last week in the leading article of Science, entitled "An Anthropologist Looks at Medicine." Therein he suggested a common ground whereon Anthropology and Medicine might get together for the benefit of mankind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pessimist's Proposal | 3/30/1936 | See Source »

...past speak to us of those great patriots whose voices once resounded in these halls. Well may we say to ourselves in the words which the Captain of the Lord's host spoke unto Joshua: 'Loose thy shoe from off thy foot, for the place whereon thou standest is holy.'" When the joint session adjourned, the Legislature passed a bill permitting it to sit once a year at Williamsburg. After the ceremonies, the party inspected the H-shaped Capitol building, whose handmade bricks had been specially fashioned in a nearby brickyard, admired the reproduction of the chair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Royall Capitol | 3/5/1934 | See Source »

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