Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...refreshing to get the proper perspective in connection with such matters. The way Hollywood buckets out Confederate propaganda you would think it was a sin for any man to have defended or fought for the U.S. during the days of the Rebellion...
...prisoners of war and civilian internees must be surrendered within 30 days to the proper authorities, "who shall give them all possible assistance in proceeding to their country of origin, place of habitual residence or zone of choice...
...countryside, "contracting" the services of farmers' daughters. Despite growing opposition to the ancient custom, such arrangements apparently are quite acceptable in the rural areas. Said the Labor Ministry report: More than two-thirds of the parents interviewed by government researchers in two prefectures felt that prostitution was a "proper occupation" for their daughters. Many approved on the grounds that the girls "couldn't find any other job which could support the whole family...
...president-Miss Waurine Walker of the Texas Education Agency-heard such notables as Mayor Robert Wagner and U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjoöld. But for the most part, the effect of the convention was to remind the public once again that it was far from performing its proper duty towards the public schools...
...annual meeting in Glasgow last week, the British Medical Association found the matter pressing enough to open its scientific session with a serious discussion of sleep and the lack of it. Physicians from far-flung Commonwealth countries as well as those from Britain proper squirmed in comfortless, sleep-discouraging seats in garish Kelvin Hall and listened with never a wink or a nod to a panel of experts...