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Word: properous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brief highlighting of various communities which have been experimenting with reading programs TIME should have given the effective Champaign program its proper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 30, 1956 | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

Tamburlaine the Great (by Christopher Marlowe*) reached Broadway 368 years after it was written. Really two plays without ever achieving the proper sense of a play at all, Tamburlaine has been understandably enough passed by. But, as dynamically staged by Tyrone Guthrie, it richly justifies a for-the-nonce revival. For if a failure, this vast creation of the 23-year-old Marlowe is yet a work of poetic genius; if undramatic, it can be stunningly theatrical; if monotonous, its monotony is a many-splendored thing. The "high, astounding terms" with which 14th century Tamburlaine assailed the world are equally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Plays in Manhattan, Jan. 30, 1956 | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

...contracts with Burroughs and Sperry Rand) that figures out the missile's position, speed and direction. If any one of these is not right for the programmed trajectory, the computer makes corrections, moving the missile's fins or regulating its fuel to put it back on its proper course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Missiles Away | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

...proper moment, a Falcon takes off with a great stab of flame. In seconds it reaches high supersonic speed. The nose strikes through the target's wing or body, and a charge of explosive detonates inside. When tested against a drone F-80 jet fighter, one of them flew up its tailpipe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: MISSILE FAMILIES | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

...Haven, became a director, has been studying ways to improve the road. He plans to hire an operating boss, said he would buy "a large number" of new diesel locomotives, boost maintenance outlays $3,000,000 in 1956, and run trains on time again. Said he: "Until proper service is accorded to the public, the investors are not entitled to a return on their investment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: Finis McGinnis | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

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