Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made a shambles of the dockside area; Winterton's Italian guard could not get through. Even Italy's own spruce Bersaglieri and their commander, General Edmondo de Renzi, were buffeted and disheveled by the warmth of their welcome. General Winterton decided not to wait around for a proper transfer of authority, sent his regrets and sailed away, amid taunts. The Centaur's skipper explained later that he could not delay putting to sea because of the weather...
...pond. To the butcher's horror, the pond now seemed roiled; the paint, soft because of impure linseed oil, had started to slide down the subject's face (see cut). Frantic, the owner turned the portrait upside down, hoping that the paint would run back into its proper place. But, as one museum expert wryly remarked, paint does not know its proper place...
These 17 club, located as they are, outside the campus proper, have a unique relationship with Nassau Hall. Over the last thirty years the University has relied on them to feed its upperclassmen. But since they are privately owned and run by their own board of trustees, the university treats them with kid gloves...
...days after, native and European police by the hundreds combed the jungle searching for Gray Leakey, a diabetic who could scarcely survive four days anywhere without proper medical care. Last week the search was given up. Cousin Leakey took to the air to warn other Kenya whites against such kindness and complacency as that of Arundel Gray Leakey...
...with a wrap-around windshield long before it came out on the production models.) For Vice President Earl, who has built up the greatest industrial designing organization in the world, Curtice is a one-man poll to test new ideas. The trick, says Curtice, is simply to find the proper balance between the new and the old. Says he; "We must 'create' used cars by bringing out new ones. But the new cars must not be too radical, or they will not sell. Automobile owners are among the most conservative people in the world...