Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...regarded as the "ultimate" solution of the commuter problem. In its features, a cooperative dorm falls far short of a Harvard House. A cooperative residence will lake tutorial staff, library, and that minimum of gracious living designed to remove the chores of cooking and maintenance which interfere with the proper pursuit of undergraduate learning. Perhaps most important, the Houses possess a heterogeneous grouping of students the cooperative houses cannot offer. The idea of a cooperative house is, to a great degree, a compromise with the goals of Harvard education...
However, another member of the Committee, which is chaired by Gardella, disclosed that "the Committee was of the opinion that Reuther was a proper candidate for the Gay Lectureship." He added that the group then submitted his name to Berry, who decided that although the labor leader would be interesting for the students, he would not be suitable for the post of Gay Lecturer...
...chemistry: that a constant solution is maintained through a constant proportion of component elements. Messrs. McCarran and Walter (along with a sizeable segment of Congress, which passed the bill over President Truman's veto) decided that in 1920 the national elements in the Melting Pot had reached the proper mixture, and decreed a quota system of immigration whereby the number of aliens admitted from each country was proportional to the national origins of the population according to the 1920 census...
...satellite, a magnesium sphere with a surface of silicon monoxide to keep it at proper temperature in sun or shadow, was put into a spin of about 50 r.p.m. The spin made it act like a gyroscope, keeping its axis always pointing in the same direction in space. At its perigee, the axis is parallel to the earth's surface. But a quarter of a revolution later the axis points vertically at the earth (see diagram). At apogee, the axis is parallel again...
...ounces per adult.) Gan's schoolteachers quit their jobs to sign on as high-paid laborers on the base, joining the 1,200 workmen imported from Pakistan. A Maldivian official sent from the capital island of Male to persuade the people of Gan to go back to their proper jobs was attacked by a mob and had to appeal to the British for protection...