Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Trouble was that nobody much had moved in recent years to No Place-a name it got back in the days when it was only two cottages jammed between two big estates and considered too small to have a proper name. (In Durham, the authorities had changed its name on their map to "Cooperative Villas," but No Place paid no attention to that.) The county planners decided that "a loss of population is expected" and pronounced No Place "a bad financial risk." That meant that the county would neither replace houses that fell into decay nor build new ones...
Pitt's declared emphasis: the proper training of the general physician...
Standing at the top of a West Berlin ski slide last week, Skier Heinz Mannstedt made a snap decision: instead of going all the way back down the hill to get proper straps for his borrowed skis, he would take a chance on the makeshift harness he was wearing. Thus decided, Heinz took off-and a moment later, as he and his skis parted company, gave photographers one of the most arresting skiing photographs in a long time...
Skier Mannstedt picked himself up a long way down the slope, resolutely tried again - this time with the proper bindings...
...McCarthy balloon. In other words, Wendell Furry's testimony cannot be judged on moral grounds alone. It must be evaluated in the light of the very practical matter at hand. How do we stop unscrupulous politicians from making unsubstantiated attacks on American education, attacks that can hurt the proper functioning of universities? For a continuation of the type of investigation we saw Friday will heighten a fear within colleges, inhibiting free inquiry and honest opinion. Its effect on a gullible public may result not only in less funds for research, but also in a regrettable resistance to an acceptance...