Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate subcommittee investigating the right of Joe McCarthy to hold his Senate seat was doing just fine-carefully accomplishing nothing, in the proper election-year spirit-if Joe had only had the sense to keep quiet. But McCarthy bulled his way into the act, charging that the subcommittee was "dishonest," that its expenses were "picking the pockets of the taxpayers." That led to a heated debate in the Senate last week on whether or not to continue the investigation...
...cover her previous week's bet. Last week Lilian's patient efforts were rewarded. She got word that she had won $210,000. "And to think," said Mrs. Guest, "that I was out charring only this morning." To Lilian Guest, the money was no more than proper pay for an expert; twice before she had won more than $500 by a special system of picking the teams. But in Bournemouth next day, a nonexpert got equally good results by "just picking them at random." On a bet of $1.50, ex-Teacher Ernest Albert Lumsden, 71, also...
However, she implied that she had not lost all faith in Harvard as an institution with a proper sense of values. "Nonetheless" she said Gallically, "I would like to come there to discuss with the professors...
...there should be a better procedure than going hat in hand to a committee every time the Council wishes an audience, one which would be more secure and predictable. The Council should petition the Faculty to approve a rule permitting Council members to discuss important policy issues with the proper Faculty committees. If the Faculty agreed, then the principle would be on the books, so to speak, and not subject to the misunderstandings and shifting, diffuse interpretations that have confounded the Gentleman's Agreement. Moreover, there is less chance that gradual disuse would erode it away, for the rule would...
Foreign students from all over Greater Boston will migrate to Memorial Hall tomorrow evening for the annual spring "Fun Fair" sponsored by the International Student Association. The gloomy Victorian interior will be covered over with gaudy travel posters to dispell the hall's somber atmosphere and provide the proper international flavor...