Word: upon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Following closely upon the discovery of Thomas H. Ham, assistant in Medicine, and William B. Castle '17, professor of Medicine, that most forms of anemia result from stagnation of the blood within the blood vessels, Dr. William P. Murphy, associate in Medicine, admitted last night that he has recently made "considerable progress" in perfecting the remedy for anemia...
...time-honored festival of THANKSGIVING was instituted:--a festival, which, originally, confined its observance to the sons of the Pilgrims and the state of Massachusetts, and which has now become almost a NATIONAL FESTIVAL, peculiarly appropriate for an expression of gratitude to God, and an acknowledgment of dependence upon Him for His bounties, and productive of a treasure of pleasing reminiscences, connected with the joys of our childhood, and the maturer, but more exquisite delights of our own hearth-sides, where parents and children, brothers and sisters, and all the loved objects of the family group renew, at the festive...
...statue in the Lincoln Memorial, he does not see merely the image of a great President. A thousand and one connotations are called up by that sight--the struggle for the Union, the defeat of slavery, in fact, the whole "American dream." Knowing this fact, Capra has played upon it to the limit. Let him who can find a better foundation for democracy cast the first words of criticism...
...entirely neglected by the Futurist. If, for example, he wishes to portray a sick person, he will place in his painting the images and distorted ideas which pass through the mind of an individual who is ill; Fear will be hovering above the person's head and the bed upon which he is resting might be transformed into the automobile he was driving when an accident occurred. All elements of natural law and human reason are distorted. In many respects, Futurism is quite similar to Sur-realism...
This English doctor, now old and weary, still has the soul of a crusader. Not content with a job well done, he insists on pushing ahead with a fanatic zeal. Knowledge of this work has forced upon Vag an irrepressible desire to learn more about it. Partly for this reason, partly in tribute to a great leader, Vag is going to hear Sir Wilfred Grenfell speak this evening at eight o'clock in the large lecture room of the Fogg Museum...