Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...produce this unity, to meet the challenge of our time, destiny has laid upon [the U.S.] the responsibility of the free world's leadership. So it is proper that we assure our friends once again that, in the discharge of this responsibility, we Americans know and observe the differ ences between world leadership and imperialism, between firmness and truculence, between a thoughtfully calculated goal and spasmodic reaction to the stimulus of emergencies...
...that Saturday, the Old Testament Sabbath, rather than Sunday, is the proper day of rest and worship, and (as Baptists also hold) that baptism must be by immersion...
...restore the old colonial capital of Williamsburg, Va. back in 1926, he guessed the job might take as much as $5,000,000 to complete. It was a vast underestimation. For one thing, Rockefeller decided to spend $6,200,000 on accommodations for tourists. Then, to insure proper colonial atmosphere, the tracks of the Chesapeake & Ohio R. R. had to be moved, and all telephone and power lines buried underground. Building costs and land values started climbing. And the overall scope of the project grew; at first, Rockefeller aimed to restore only the old buildings that remained...
Said Cowles Magazines' President Gardner Cowles in announcing Tasker's appointment: "He will be the top editorial executive in the company with responsibility for the proper functioning of the Look editorial department and the Quick editorial department...
...pointed out "in New York a teacher's union claimed to be dominated by the Communist party. That's a proper subject for investigation. I wouldn't think we ought to go into businesses or colleges or everywhere else and just say, 'He's a Communist professor' and throw...