Word: properer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Instead, Nehru made a counterproposal of his own, suggesting to the Chinese that the proper course "would be for you to withdraw from Longju" on India's northeastern frontier, and pledging that Indian troops would not then reoccupy the border post. As for Ladakh, in Kashmir, where the Chinese have seized some 9,000 square miles of Indian territory, Nehru proposed that Indian troops pull back to the west of the line that China claims is the boundary, while Chinese troops retire to the east of the line claimed by India...
...early years of aviation. Biplanes were then the established type. They were easy to build because their double wings, braced by crisscrossed wire and struts, strengthened each other. But they were inefficient aerodynamically, and they had to be fooled with continually to keep their complex structure in proper order. The single wings of monoplanes were hard to make strong enough, but everyone knew that when they could be built, their efficiency and simplicity would make them dominant...
...Studio. At Porcella's urging, Zlatoff-Mirsky came hurrying out to Hollywood. He pronounced the pictures in excellent condition-while at the same time warning that another year of neglect would ruin them forever-took them away, and restored them all with "chemical solvents" in three weeks. Since proper restoration of deteriorated paintings can require as much as a year apiece, Zlatoff-Mirsky's speed was astonishing. At Lawyer Giesler's press conference, he refused to show the actual pictures but passed photographs about. There were also pictures of the most happy Folio himself...
...action confined to the game proper. After the gun sounded, one of the wildest brawls in modern memory broke out among the players. The Brown line, Meigs, Culver, and Crimson tackle Bernie O'Brien were the most prominent participants in the fray; Culver emerged with an opponent clutched in each hand...
...final similarity with the sciences lies in the difficulty both areas have in getting the proper senior faculty to teach undergraduate courses. Because of the vast gap between the level of professional work and the elementary nature of undergraduate work--a gap so great that the difference is not only of degree of sophistication but of content--many professors are either reluctant to teach undergraduates or incapable of making the transition...