Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...questioning, Ike was frank and unflustered. He disagreed bluntly with Van Fleet's proposal to extend the draft. If McCarthy and his investigations strayed too far from their proper pastures, he would comment on them; meanwhile, he said, it would be improper to express an opinion. Only once did the President's voice show a slight edge-when he emphatically denied a rumor that there was a rift between Bob Taft and himself...
...begins. To give stand-by Powers to the president, they insist, would inhibit business by constantly threatening it with a sudden price freeze. They also claim that the decision to invoke price controls is too big for one man, and want Congress to do the deciding at the proper time...
...beginning of this semester: This office had received several complaints by students that their interests in the French Club were neither respected nor furthered. In the discussions preceding the selection of the play to be performed by the French Club neither Harvard nor Radcliffe students received proper consideration. The most decisive event, however, was the prospective election of officers for the present term. The Faculty Advisor, Dr. Simches, informed the Chairman that only seven members were present during the election meeting; three of them were officers. Such an election could hardly be called a fair or open one. One might...
Before he got the job, Perkins never thought much about being a Housemaster. Born 52 years ago this month at Westwood, Mass., into a family of distinctly proper Bostonians, he prepped at Milton Academy, graduating in 1918. He then spent a year on a ranch (developing into an incredibly inept cowboy, he says) before entering Harvard with the Class of 1923. He captained the third 150-pound crew in College history during his senior year and got his degree cum laude in History and Literature. He enrolled in the Law School, but found law so little to his liking that...
...model case is the rise of the National Socialist movement to power with the Gnostic chorus wailing its moral indignation at such barbarian and reactionary doings in a progressive world-without, however, raising a finger to repress the rising force by a minor political effort in proper time...