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Word: properous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Confucius Less than three months after" shamelessly promising a vast industrial expansion in 1953, the Chinese Communists were finding that old Confucius was right after all. The Peking People's Daily accused everybody in sight of a "deviation of adventuristic progress," i.e., of rushing into projects without proper planning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Adventuristic Progress | 5/25/1953 | See Source »

...Government should get out of the power business. It would be a grave policy error to support that type of program . . . We will continue, within the limits that the national budget will permit, with construction of such projects as are economically feasible and fall within the proper category of federal projects. [But] we will encourage to the utmost extent possible the construction and management of facilities by the states, municipalities, public agencies and private enterprise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Public-Power Policy | 5/25/1953 | See Source »

...committee has been hampered by the fact that two of its elected members have joined the Navy, and also by administrative difficulties in providing ticket-sellers at the proper hours in Lamont Library. The committee is headed by Daniel J. O'Connor '53 of Leverett House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Class Day Committee Sees Deficit As Senior Week Ticket Sales Lag | 5/20/1953 | See Source »

This is not to say that I Believe in You is a bad picture or one not worth the regular price of admission. The work must merely be placed in a proper perspective, as a grade B British social documentary...

Author: By David L. Ratner, | Title: I Believe in You | 5/20/1953 | See Source »

...wedding day is rainy, a lucky omen in Brazil, and the wedding night so blissful that Author Machado slyly warns the reader: "Don't worry, I do not intend to describe it; human language does not possess forms proper to so great a task." Lucky in love, Bento is also lucky at law, partly because good friend Ezekiel shunts cases his way. And when Capitu bears a son, Bento insists on naming the child Ezekiel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Brazilian Loser | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

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