Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Whether this distinction and prejudic, existing in the opinion and feeling of the community, would not be effectually fosted by compelling colored and white children to associate together in the same schools, may well be doubted: at all events, it is a fair and proper question for the committee to consider and decide upon, having in view the best interests of both classes of children placed under their superintendence, and we cannot say that their decision upon it is not founded on just grounds of reason and experience, and in the results of a discriminating and honest judgement...
...Proper Admiration. But the string of superb victories looked to some Britons of Marlborough's day like an endless series of bloody shambles. Good Queen Anne began to cry aloud, "Oh, Lord, when will all this dreadful bloodshed cease?" Sarah, fighting desperately to keep the Queen under her thumb, only succeeded in losing Anne's affections. The Churchills' many enemies closed in-and with a crash like falling idols, both Sarah and John were thrust from their offices. But, by then, they were millionaires...
Author Rowse finds it hard to understand why satirists such as Swift and Pope fired some of their nastiest arrows at the glittering Marlboroughs. He bridles at the refusal of most Britons (which persists to this day) to regard the mighty pair with proper awe and admiration. To have boundless ambition, to become fabulous millionaires, to seize the power behind the throne coldly and calculatingly-these, as Rowse sees them, are not only natural characteristics in great men and women, but a small price to pay for national greatness and security. Be that as it may, the Marlboroughs...
Contrary to recurrent rumors that year, Miss Radcliffe did not receive the Ibis among her prizes. The proper authorities asserted that the sacred bird was in the hands of people reported to have little respect for female pulchritude...
Picto's vocabulary consists of some 300 signs or drawings and twelve symbols which in combination do the work of roughly 10,000 words in an ordinary language. Proper names and certain technical words which have no Picto equivalent are spelled out as in the original. In the interest of simplicity. Picto has no articles, makes no distinction between adjectives and adverbs. Its word order goes: subject, verb, direct object, indirect object. Janson started with the personal pronouns-I, you, he and she-which he designated I, II, III, and which retain the same form when they shift from...