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Word: properous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...colonnades and porticoes . . . as a result of which, state resources have been overspent to an amount with which more than one million square meters of living floor space could have been built." Singled out for special mention: Moscow Architect Alexander V. Vlasov, who "not only failed to conduct a proper struggle against this extravagance, but [was] guilty of superfluities in designs he drew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Architect of Disaster | 11/21/1955 | See Source »

Through Error. For community orchestra managers-often amateurs who had to learn their business by trial and error -the league now runs annual training sessions. Included in the curriculum: how to select guest artists and evaluate their fees; how and where to get music and musicians; how to achieve proper balance of power between manager, conductor, board of directors and musicians-and generally, how to keep a whole town happily working for its orchestra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: 1,000 Orchestras | 11/21/1955 | See Source »

...what comes to him in a sort of dream, expecting the devoted reader to run about after him, sniffing at all the droppings of his mind. I am not a psychological dog, and require my dog biscuit to be clearly set down for me in a decent plate with proper ceremony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cafe Talk of a Sage | 11/21/1955 | See Source »

...American Historical Association set the Division in its proper perspective when it passed a resolution in 1951 to "remind the appropriate federal officials...that in this time of crisis maximum official publication of documents on foreign relations is essential to public understanding, without which United States foreign policy will be subject to ill-advised pressures...

Author: By Andrew W. Bingham, | Title: Partisans and Historians | 11/17/1955 | See Source »

While De Sapio is making the proper maneuvers in public-keeping Harriman alive as a candidate, but not pushing him too far out-Averell Harriman will be working intensely toward the goal in his own way. At whatever game he is playing -polo, croquet, iskiing, bridge, railroading, diplomacy, politics-he has a consuming urge to keep working, driving, doing. One reason for that urge may well be the fact that, if he had been inclined to loaf, he would not have had to turn a hand throughout his life. His father gave him many of the rewards men work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Ave & the Magic Mountain | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

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