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Word: properous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the Radcliffe girl in signalling thumbs down on the new look, the Harvard man is picking it up with enthusiasm. The well-dressed man is becoming narrower and narrower--the stringbean look now dominates proper male fashions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Men's Fashions Veer Yet Closer to Edward VII; Distinctive Ectomorph Holds Style Spotlight As Male Goes Stringbean | 3/20/1953 | See Source »

...course, if Edwardianism asserts itself as the proper style of masculine dress, there is nothing to do but adopt it. We've readily taken up Chesterfields, so there is little reason for us to resist four or five or six button coats, inverted shoulders, walking sticks, bowlers, and full, flaring capes if they happen to become fashionable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Men's Fashions Veer Yet Closer to Edward VII; Distinctive Ectomorph Holds Style Spotlight As Male Goes Stringbean | 3/20/1953 | See Source »

Jones, speaking before a large audience at the Wellesley Honors Day Convocation, stated, "I cannot agree that refusal to incriminate oneself is proper ground for wrecking the professional life of a teacher...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jones Denounces Teacher Firings In Wellesley Talk | 3/17/1953 | See Source »

...crew of eight nurses, equipped with measuring rods and springless scales, will visit all ten provinces measuring and weighing men, women & children in their homes. Subjects will be chosen according to tables prepared by the Bureau of Statistics to make sure that proper proportions of urban and rural dwellers, all ages and occupations are represented in the total...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: National Weigh-ln | 3/16/1953 | See Source »

...Leonhard is concerned, the building program is only the beginning. Once the city has a proper plant, she thinks, it can begin to concentrate on remodeling the curriculum. In that job, the board can expect full cooperation from its able new superintendent, James Redmond; it was one of the results of Mrs. Four-to-One's crusade that he was hired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Mrs. Four-to-One | 3/16/1953 | See Source »

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