Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fight against Communism, the President said, "we are defeating ourselves if either by design or through carelessness we use methods that do not conform to the American sense of justice and fair play . . . Obviously, it is the responsibility of the Congress to see to it that its procedures are proper and fair...
...become Columbia, fourth largest (25,000 students) and fourth richest ($113,589,957.37 in capital endowment) of U.S. universities, had not a single building to call its own. About the only thing it did have was a conviction: that "New York is the Center of English America, and the Proper Place for a Colledge...
This year, as Columbia celebrated its 200th anniversary, it could summon scholars from all over the world to attend its year-long series of conferences and convocations. But in spite of its international prestige, it has never lost its early sense that the city is its "proper place," nor has it forgotten that its special character is largely a matter of location. It is an Ivy Leaguer minus the ivy, an ivory tower without ivory, a polyglot campus of brick and stone that still draws two-thirds of its undergraduates from a radius of less than 100 miles. Its bicentennial...
...Behalf of Those Suffering Pangs of Conscience," the petition asked: "Shall the widow because she draws a pension of several hundrad schillings ... be obliged to forgo the primitive right of marrying again?" If the state refuses to act, wrote the Archbishop, "the bishops [will be] obliged to ... order the proper priest to perform the marriage in open contravention...
...applause for Dr. Alexander. There are four approaches to his big subject, said Kinsey−"Statistical, biological, moral and rational"−and he had been speaking only of the biological approach. As for his controversial books: "At no point did we suggest that statistical normality is morally or socially proper. We have never said that what is common should be accepted...