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Word: properous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...advancing years. The doctors certainly say that my physical reactions, the clinical record, is splendid today." It was toward the end of his conference that Ike seemed to contribute the most fascinating (and baffling) clue of the day. Said he: "I have my own ideas of what is a proper sphere of activity for the President of the United States. One of them ... is that he doesn't go out barnstorming for himself under any conditions, and even had I stood for the presidency again, and never experienced this heart attack. I would never have gone out barnstorming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Answer in View | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

According to Feeney, a "negligible amount of men are now drafted out of college. The secretary at the University's transfer board, however, said that students must maintain proper standing to stay in college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Draft May Hit Men Entering Grad Schools | 2/18/1956 | See Source »

...more than $6,180. At the end of twelve years, the professor automatically reaches a final salary of $7,680, but the Division of Personnel and Standardization bars merit raises. When the professor dies, the division is apt to downgrade his post to an associate professorship, thus making proper replacement even more difficult than it would be normally. "If the librarian requires top-level professional assistants," says Mather, "he will be told by the division that he cannot have them because the mental hospitals do not have assistants in their libraries. When a professorship becomes vacant in the history department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Straitjacket | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

...church must "reassume its ancient and proper responsibility and productivity with reference to all the arts," an undertaking that "it could well begin by purging its own arts [of the] insipid or precious or esoteric or sentimental...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Art Needs the Church | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

...produce theologians and critics who have dealt authoritatively with culture and the arts, as well as artists of genuine stature . . . Religion has a depth which art needs lest it become tempted to estheticism. Religion, on the other hand, is expressed most profoundly through the forms which constitute the proper concern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Art Needs the Church | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

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