Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which Peking calls "the Northeast District." But in guarded progress reports, the Communists showed last week how completely the Red future in China hinges on the 443,275-square-mile land of the Manchu, a land nominally Chinese but actually north of the Great Wall and outside of China proper. Examples...
...Only the merest traces of copper are normally found in the body, and not much has been known about what the copper does. Investigators from Salt Lake City offered a surprising answer: the copper is essential to proper use of iron; without it, animals (and probably humans, too) become anemic...
...referring to himself not as "I," but as "Bertrand," or "the Grand Maréchal," or worst of all, since it invited confusion with Napoleon himself, as "he." It was three long years before De Langle could figure out who was talking to whom about what (at times even proper names were abbreviated to initials), and could interpret the above example...
Worse than Asia. For measuring purposes, the foundation used a scale under which a community with proper sanitary facilities and good health conditions gets a hypothetical 106.5 points. The Egyptian villages scored only 23.8 points, far worse even than populous, poverty-plagued villages in India, China and the West Indies (average: 53-25 points...
...Dreiser and Eugene O'Neill. They also became trademarks of the "lost generation" along with hot jazz, bobbed hair and the hip flask. Mencken lashed out at the "booboisie" with a bull whip; the debonair Nathan was content to use a swizzle stick. In the eyes of the proper-minded, the two iconoclasts were unholy terrors. A couplet of those days went...