Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been further argued that McCarthy's intentions were not directed toward gathering information, with an eye to possible legislation, presumably the proper function of a legislative investigative committee. In his discussion of Congressional investigations, Bath has commented, "the purpose of an inquiry seems the significant key to its validity. Questioning aimed at inhibiting expression or harassing non-conformity of conducting a legislative trial entails purposes that are unconstitutional. It is certainly possible to ban such questioning without impairing the ability of congressional committees to discharge their vitally important part of the legislative process." Here again, it seems impossible disentangle substantial...
Carried to its proper conclusion, Our Lord would have come from a large family indeed, if we follow their interpretation that "brethren" signifies actual brothers and sisters: "Then was he seen by more than five hundred brethren at once: of whom many remain until this present, and some are fallen asleep." (1 Corinthians...
...fashionable art circles today, "illustration" has become a dirty word, and "literary" a sneering epithet. The proper province of art is thought to be merely art. a non-representational play of shapes and colors. Last week Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum staged an exhibition of pictures from its archives that graphically refutes the modern proposition of art for the artist's sake...
Emilion, authoritative St. Estèphe and provocative Pomerol, 70 sample bottles, all poised at just the proper angle to preserve their bouquet for the Londoners...
...world he is by celestial star sights, a process that involves only himself, his sextant and the heavenly bodies. Last week New York's Kollsman Instrument Corp. gave the ancient science of celestial navigation a modern twist, announced a new sextant that, once preset, will seek out the proper star or planet, average a series of sights, and flash its readings by remote control to the navigator. With a three-star fix, he can pinpoint the position of his aircraft within two miles under normal flight conditions. But the big advantage lies in the fact that...