Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...client has mathematicians of his own, he can take home a "patch panel": a metal rectangle containing hundreds of small, marked holes. By connecting the proper holes with plug-in wires, he translates his problem into language that the computer can understand. When the panel is inserted in the Princeton machine, the computer gets to work at once; numbers flash rapidly across a glass screen, and spidery arms push electronic pens up the peaks and down into the valleys of a long graph. A correct reading of the graph tells the answer...
...electorate) were paraded to the polls to answer a loaded question: "Are you for a peace treaty and removal of occupation troops or for EDC and letting occupation troops stay on for 50 years?" Just in case anyone wondered which of two circles on the ballot was the proper one to mark, huge banners at most voting places read: "Every German votes for the peace treaty." The results: 93½% for a Communist-bestowed peace treaty and against...
...housewives this fall will be taught the proper way to serve all the dishes they are taught to prepare on TV's countless daytime cooking shows. Giving them expert advice on the correct fork and the perfect place setting, as well as on dozens of other subjects-from Kissing in Public to Asking Personal Questions-will be Amy Vanderbilt. the latter-day Emily Post, author of Doubleday's 700-page Complete Book of Etiquette...
...salt pokes through the sediment beds, it bends and breaks them and drags them upward, forming many pockets to trap the oil that has formed from marine organisms buried in the sediments. Best of all, salt domes all but shout, "Here we are!" To an oil geologist using the proper instruments (gravimeters and seismographs), a deeply buried dome stands out like a snowcapped mountain against a clear...
...second method, said the Star, is the "He-Said-Five-Thousand-Words-on -Something-Else -and -Fifteen -on -McCarthy -and -It's -Up -to -Us -to-Put-It-in-Proper-Perspective . . . These stories begin: 'The Rev. So-and-So made a slashing attack on Senator McCarthy . . . tonight. The Rev. So-and-So's topic actually was "The Need for Better Choirs in Rural Churches." At the end of his hour-long address, the Rev. So-and-So said: "That goes for Senator McCarthy...