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Word: properous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...annals as one of the great classic retreats in the history of war. Bringing their dead and wounded with them in sub-zero weather, pursued by eight fiercely attacking divisions of Chinese Communists, the marines of the 1st beat their way to Hungnam and rescue in 13 days. But proper marines never refer to the march as a retreat; in the parlance of the corps, it is always "an amphibious operation in reverse," or, simply, "the breakthrough to the sea." One proper marine, Major General Oliver Prince Smith, whose leadership made the operation possible, immortalized the retreat (and himself) with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Warrior | 9/12/1955 | See Source »

...farms we visited I believe we were given accurate information. For proper appraisal, however, we should have had more basic economic data than the Russians were willing to provide. Quite early in our trip we asked for. and were promised, data on grain and livestock production, prices, payments for machine-tractor station services, farm employment and farm income. These were never given...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. BUSINESSMEN SHOULD GO INTO POLITICS | 9/12/1955 | See Source »

Giraffes fascinate physiologists, as well as children at the zoo. The most interesting point about them, physiologically, is that they manage to keep their heads supplied with the proper amount of blood. When a full-grown giraffe lowers its neck to drink and then raises it upright, its head changes level by 19 ft.-from 7 ft. below its heart to 12 ft. above it. Some fancy hydraulics is obviously called for to keep the blood flowing properly at all times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Giraffe Problem | 9/12/1955 | See Source »

CONFLICT-OF-INTEREST problems for Government officials will be decided by Trustbuster Stanley Barnes. President Eisenhower has instructed Assistant Attorney General Barnes to rule on where the line of propriety should be drawn. Example: Is it proper for the Defense Department to award a contract to a firm whose president recently returned from a key Government post? Barnes may also bring out an official guidebook for the use of Government officials who still have business interests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Sep. 12, 1955 | 9/12/1955 | See Source »

...persuade us to throw it all up and go to the colonies. We have given the colonies a fair trial, and they mean death to Louis ... It is very difficult for me to understand that anyone can prefer a life of calls, leaving and receiving cards, with a proper church and invested meals and a nap on Sundays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fanny | 9/12/1955 | See Source »

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