Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with a mixed feeling of revenge and morbid curiosity that we put sociological tactics to use in determining how the Harvard element would react if suddenly placed in our shoes (green suede). Donning our best overalls we approached ten or eleven of the more proper looking specimens up for the football game and rendered an oral examination consisting of one question: "Are you from Harvard...
...membership: barely 5,000) Communist Party offered a bittersweet welcome to a long-lost comrade, Painter Diego Rivera, 67. In 1929, Comrade Rivera was excommunicated because of his growing list of deviations. He had fallen into the habit of firing off peppery pronunciamentos without first clearing them with the proper Red monitors. Confessed loose-lipped Rivera: "I got kicked out for shooting off my mouth." He later even gave haven in his home for two years to Leon Trotsky. Back in the fold again last week, Rivera was strangely mum. In tragic truth, he was tired, in bad health...
Within the Arts college proper, considerable study of the possibility of inaugurating a General Education-type program for liberal arts students has been going on for a year or so under the director of Dean Paul M. O'Leary...
...this is a pretty hard role to fill, especially when limited to the generally false sounding lines that Miller provides, Whedon deserves much credit for making Chris extremely natural and likeable, mostly devoid of Miller's pomposity. But Whedon is not quite deft enough to give the role its proper proportions. He too often is content with a safe reading of his difficult lines, seldom rising very much above his "nice guy" interpretation...
According to legend, a very proper New England lady, with an offspring ready for College, once fell into a conversation about education with a non-Bostonian acquaintance...