Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problem in Pakistan, Bell pointed out, is the proper application of her natural resources, including both the natural wealth furnished by minerals and also the foreign and private capital interested there. The team is taking an engineer along in order to adequately handle problems involving bridge-building and power projects...
Peabody's research activities are not confined to the Museum building proper, however. The Museum engages in extensive projects in coopreation with similar institutions all over the world. A constant exchange of specimens and inter-library leans take place between Peabody and organizations abroad. In particular, the Museum library, with well over 60,000 items, conducts a widespread exchange of research material with other museums and university departments of anthropology--Peabody publications even breach the Iron Curtain...
Tipped off that a mysterious gang of undergraduates was trying to peddle advance copies of his final examination for $30 apiece, Instructor Gilbert Geis of the University of Oklahoma decided that it would be only proper for him to crack the case himself. Last week he got one of his students to cooperate, told him to let it be known that he needed an advance copy of the exam and to get one of the culprits to deliver it himself. The trap worked: when the culprit arrived, both Instructor Geis and the campus chief of police were on hand...
...systems use the basic technique of broadcasting "scrambled" signals that form a picture only when unscrambled by a special device attached to the receiving set. Telemeter Corp., 54% owned by Paramount Pictures, uses a coin box hitched to the TV set, which unscrambles the picture when the proper amount of money is inserted. Zenith Radio Corp.'s Phonevision, now awaiting an FCC decision, originally used a special unscrambling signal transmitted to the set via a telephone-line attachment, and depended on the phone company to do the billing. But now Phonevision has several alternate methods. One uses the coin...
...heights didn't bother us," said one of the freshmen. "We're used to mountain climbing. We wore all the proper clothing and everything, so there was no danger. The cops finally stopped us before we could actually reach Memorial's peak, as we were resting in the colonnades just below the clock...