Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Annapolis one night last week and burned a great disfiguring M into the carefully tended turf of Thompson Stadium. No one got too fired up. The lacrosse game coming up between Navy and Maryland was sure to be a minor riot, anyway, and the predawn blaze seemed almost a proper ritual. Rules, referees and two centuries of civilization have failed to temper the spirited spring sport that white men learned from the American Indian...
...installing automatic stamp-selling machines in their windows in 66 of the busiest cities. The machine, made by Electric Vendors of Minneapolis, has six dials, one for each of the most popular stamp denominations. When a customer asks for a few stamps (up to ten), the clerk dials the proper number and out pop the stamps. Price: $1,000 per machine...
...diffident little savage, and Carol Cohen expressed the tribe's philosophy with remarkable naturalness. As other savage, Dick Merlo, Fenton Hollander, Mimi Martinez, and Erich Segal were all suitably oivilized, while Ann Rand and bill Soring played the missionary's daughter and an American trader with the proper uncouthness. As the missionary, Earle Edgerton displayed just the right mixture of theological dogmatism and personal uncertainty...
...typing students on its long tables as those who presently write. Possibly this one hall might handle all the College typers. By posting advance sign-up sheets for students interested in typing their exams, the Registrar could judge the amount of space required ahead of time, and make the proper adjustments. Examination period is long and tense enough in the midst of a Cambridge spring. This simple step for making test-taking easier should be adopted without further delay...
...rough denims (1943), and she was the first with the "riveted look," using work-clothes grippers for fasteners and ornamentation. She introduced the "diaper" bathing suit -and in 1942 she started the craze for ballet slippers. Necessity mothered that invention: unable because of wartime shortages to get the proper shoes for her showroom models, McCardell put them all in fabric Capezio ballet slippers. The fad caught on, and she still suggests designs for many Capezio shoes...