Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Council, probably gives the best indication of what's in store for the future. It states that Council members have been "vigorously engaged in exploring the best means for taking advantage of the proposed reservation of VHF channel 2...They are agreed that the (Council) is the proper agency to coordinate their efforts, and the rising of funds...The Council is actively seeking these necessary funds and is more than reasonably confident that they can be secured (if the channel is reserved in Boston...
...efficiency over the western Mediterranean. One incident had marred the maneuvers. When a British commander wanted an Italian commander to stop sending messages in code, he sent word: "Use plain language." The Italian thought his idiom was being criticized, and froze into sulky silence. Carney ruled that henceforth the proper NATO instruction should be "Do not encode...
...Metropolitan Opera, Christoph Willibald Gluck is the oldest (1714-87), the least honored, the least sung.* Four of his 42 operas have been performed at the Met, but only at very rare intervals. Last week Gluck's Alcestis got a performance that restored some of the proper shine to his name...
...percent room rent rise to cover a deficit in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The chapter charged that the University had not exhausted all sources at its disposal and declared the money could "come from elsewhere." It settled the problem by having all "hardship" cases seek aid through proper Harvard channels...
Except for a few stray noises about expansion and some letters from football-minded graduates, the Corporation has scarcely heard of these problems in connection with the University. Through a rigid policy of keeping athletics in its proper place, the University has allowed itself the relative pleasure of concentrating on bolts and girders instead of crowds and gate receipts...