Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...share a rare combination of sensitive, creative intellect and administrative forcefulness. They met in the wartime Pentagon, where Proper Bostonian Cutler, handling officer procurement, "hired" Proper Houstonian Anderson* as a major. Cutler rose to brigadier general, while Anderson served as a Military Government staff officer in the Middle East and returned to Washington a colonel. Two years ago Bobby Cutler got President Eisenhower to appoint Anderson as one of seven outside National Security Council consultants...
...stiffness in acting technique separates most of the others in the cast from the standard set by the three principles. Robert Beaty understands his part as a kindly, ineffectual old man but plays him as something of a crochet and far too sharp a thinker. Colgate Salsbury lacks the proper touch of fatuous pomposity and caricature in his version of a bumptuous farm manager. But neither man is at all bad in his role. Lee Jeffries and Patricia Leathem are good at saying their lines but have done little to improve on them in a way that might capture attention...
Graduate students have charged that many of the boarding houses are "tenements." The principal complaints have been that the rooms are too small and dark, lack proper study facilities, and are generally unattractive. Many students have described the housing situation as being "pretty miserable...
...commonest causes of skin ailments is home medication of assorted cuts, scratches and infections without waiting for a proper medical diagnosis, reported Dr. L. Edward Gaul of Evansville, Ind. Thus misused, practically any medication can cause trouble-and this includes the sulfas, antibiotics, local anesthetics and antihistaminics...
...glows when it is excited by an electrical voltage. The phosphor is sandwiched between a matrix of horizontal and vertical wires. If there are 500 running in each direction there will be 250,000 points at which wires cross. These intersections can be made to glow by impressing the proper voltage on the wires. If the voltages are changed rapidly, the spot of light scans the screen, forming a TV picture...