Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard, in young Lodge's day, raccoon coats were the proper uniform, and he was embarrassed at wearing a mink-lined coat. He proposed to his grandfather that the mink-lined coat be sold so that he could buy two raccoon coats for himself and his brother John (now governor of Connecticut). Cabot Lodge rowed on class crews, belonged to literary clubs and the Cercle Français. He worked hard, and got his degree in three years. "I wanted to get going," he explains. "I wanted to be a newspaperman...
...election fund and hundreds of campaign workers, plus the warm support of President Jacobo Arbenz, the pro-government leftist parties and the Communists. He did have one worry: his house might be too small for a proper post-election celebration...
Barnhouse outlined the idea to his congregation, which immediately voted him $5,000 to go to work. He set up a nonprofit corporation known as the Evangelical Foundation, and began experimenting with tape, playbacks and voices of the proper combination of vividness and ministerial timbre...
...before his death in January 1950, Dr. Walter Maier, famed radio preacher of the Lutheran Hour, enthusiastically agreed to edit a dozen of Martin Luther's sermons and record them for Portable Church Services as the voice of Luther. Barnhouse is still looking for another voice with the proper German undertones to fill the role...
...attempt by P.B.H. to get additional nurses from the Army for the actual blood-letting was blocked by the Red Cross, which said that Army nurses could do only blood pressure and paper work. The Army replied that it would send only proper technicians for such work, and the Red Cross said such technicians would not be good enough for its purposes...