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Word: properous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to the opposite view, to bolder and more realistic view, the place in all the world in which it is most proper to deal with controversial subjects is the college or university; a that of all periods in the individual life, youth is the period when this encounter with controversial subjects most natural and profitable...

Author: By Ralph BARTON Perry, | Title: Two Memorable Addresses | 9/21/1951 | See Source »

According to the opposite view, to bolder and more realistic view, the place in all the world in which it is most proper to deal with controversial subjects is the college or university; a that of all periods in the individual life, youth is the period when this encounter with controversial subjects most natural and profitable...

Author: By Ralph BARTON Perry, | Title: Two Memorable Addresses | 9/20/1951 | See Source »

...perhaps not proper for me to air any criticism after having been in this country for only nine months [but] what strikes me most are the manners & morals of young people (5 to 25) here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 17, 1951 | 9/17/1951 | See Source »

Last week Tandon resigned as party president, explaining lamely that "Nehru is the symbol of our nation . . . I see no other way out." Then the All-India Congress Committee offered Nehru the scepter. At first he demurred, deeming it not proper for the Prime Minister to also wield the power of party president. Eventually, he permitted himself to be persuaded. Said he: "One should not be bashful . . . I cannot be a coward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Nehru Fights Back | 9/17/1951 | See Source »

...last shot forced an out, the new queen uttered an unqueenly "Yeeow!" Then she scampered to the net for a proper handshake, grabbed a towel near the umpire's chair and sobbed into it for joy over beating all the big girls at last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Young Queen | 9/17/1951 | See Source »

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