Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this year's sweepstakes, proper timing is essential. Many Oscar contenders released earlier this year (e.g., Ivanhoe, Snows of Kilimanjaro, Carrie) are commonly regarded as already too old to get an Academy nod. This strange tradition of fast-fading eligibility has produced an equally strange custom: year-end "prerelease" of most of the brightest Oscar hopefuls...
...resolve, then, would limit the University, cut down its scheduling discretion and, in case the Ivy League produces a few powerhouse teams itself, force Harvard to wage football beyond its capacities. Common standards for admissions policy, scholarship grams, and other affairs basic to control of football are all very proper, but conformity on things like scheduling is not worth the impositions involved...
...present there is no undergraduate field of concentration in Geography--it was abolished in 1948--no graduate program, and only one professor of the subject. Lack of funds and the administration's feeling that geography was not a proper college subject kept the field so small that it could no longer offer enough courses for concentrators...
...failure, for he loathed making either speeches or compromises ("If I could only get turned out of Parliament in an honest way and settle down among my books!"). It was not until 1895, when he was made regius professor of modern history at Cambridge University, that he found his proper niche. There he finally revealed his "essential ethical position...
...never even seen the Louis Armstrong show at Storyville which Andrew E. Norman reviews in the December 12 CRIMSON, but I know enough about music and musicians to know that Mr. Norman makes three mistakes in proper names during the course of his article, mistakes which somewhat impair the apparent note of authority which distinguishes the rest of the review. The said mistakes...