Word: upon
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...omnipotent loudspeaker announces that there's going to be a special 6:15 flight. I jump off the carpet with the energy of a deprived mouse at the sight of Swiss cheese. They direct us to a waiting area and our eyes feast upon the sight of chairs. Right angles and cheap leather never looked this good. I borrow a cell phone and call my mom. We were both expecting me to be safely lodged in Wigglesworth Hall at this time. She nearly drops a pot of boiling water when I tell her that I'm still at LaGuardia...
...Many pieces of music have a premiere, their "first night." But pieces by Shostakovich or Tchaikowsky, for example, don't appear in either your course or your book. How did you decide upon these five pieces...
Dunn said that Radcliffe will use the committee's report to improve upon their weaknesses...
...class at Harvard College I was the only member of the Young Communists League," he recalls. "I was called upon by my comrades to recruit other people but could not. I look back with amusement at the notion that somehow the Red tide was rising to dangerous heights at Harvard...
Jordana R. Lewis's clearly heart-felt concern for what she describes as the "epidemic that preys upon the Harvard campus" ("Date Rape Happens at Harvard," Nov. 30) is not altogether reasonable. No doubt there are grains of truth in her sincere conviction that there are many more cases of date rape than the Harvard University Police Department or the University acknowledge. However, she should refrain from using words such as "epidemic" when she can offer readers lots of speculations but few hard facts...