Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, petitioned by the British, the International Court of Justice at The Hague handed down a ruling on this vexing issue. Britain argued that the proper way to measure four miles out is to follow the contours of the coast, bending the territorial limit like a ribbon shaped to the mainland's contour. Under that system, a goodly part of the waters fished by British trawlers would be open sea, free to all comers. The Norwegians argued for their own system, which measures the four-mile zone from lines drawn between the outermost land points and rocks along...
Progress & Poison. To the psychologist, says Sir Walter, the proper approach to the delinquent is "therapeutic rather than juridical; the offender is to be regarded as a sick man to be healed rather than as a malefactor to be chastised . . . Ultimately then, all praise and blame are irrational." Bernard Shaw put the moral, says Sir Walter, when he once suggested that a man should no more be punished for having an inefficient conscience than for having an inefficient lung...
Chesterfield took a dim view of women generally; he felt their proper function was "to suckle fools and chronicle small beer." But in an age of high manners and low morals, it was chic to have a mistress, even more chic to sire a bastard. The earl had both...
...change will mean nothing to tourists and perhaps little to traders. But Chancellor R. A. ("Rab") Butler was in effect making a gesture in the direction of free markets, as if to affirm that the give & take of private trading and not the rigid mechanism of authority is the proper way to set the value of a nation's currency. Like the payment to the tailor, it might not be much more than a gesture, but it was a gesture in the right direction...
...more than 200 newspapers, and brought her more than $50,000 a year, she became a sort of universal grandmother, marrying off millions of problem children, reconciling the married ones to their mates. For the hundreds who wrote her every week, she became a standard reference for what is proper. Sample problems and solutions: whether to marry a rich or poor man (rich, other things being equal); how to lure men ("the come-hither look in the eye, a sort of come-on, if you know what I mean"); how to deal with a husband who pays no compliments (forget...