Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congress shall have power, in such cases as it may deem proper, to provide a suitable oath or affirmation for citizens whose religious scruples prevent them from giving unqualified allegiance to the Constitution as herein amended...
...Commander in Chief. As any military man should know, the Army has its own recourse for soldiers who feel their superiors are derelict of duty: a complaint to the inspector general. And another thing: the armed services are quite capable of investigating their own troubles. An occasional and proper congressional inquiry into specific military matters might be a good thing, but the services should be permitted to do their own housekeeping...
Visiting Americans often regard the elegant accents of BBC announcers as the proper speech of Britain. But Englishmen often find themselves as confused and baffled by BBC speech as Americans...
...Wulsin explains with much mathematics how the human body keeps itself at the proper temperature. Heat escapes by radiation, by convection and conduction to the air and through the cooling effect of evaporation. When it does not escape fast enough, the temperature of the internal organs rises. The heart pumps harder to carry more blood to the surface. Sometimes so much blood is needed for carrying heat that not enough remains to make the body work properly...
...While he was studying for the priesthood, the Paulist Order sent him all over Europe to study with the masters of choral music. Young O'Malley took full advantage of the opportunity. Says he: "The church through various Popes has recognized the boy's voice as the proper vehicle for religious music because of its innocent quality. The early composers of the polyphonic period wrote for boys and men, not for men and women. So it's my belief that this music can only be sung by boys and men, and I wanted to find...