Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...something of the spirit in their making. Example: R. G. LeTourneau's earth-moving monsters are pictured at work in Portugal on flood control, irrigation and electrical power projects. Example: Standard Oil reports improvements in public transportation through petroleum research. Example: Squibb tells about good health from proper medical care and sanitation...
...nothing Congress. It had worked its head off at watchdogging (which is also a proper part of its function), spending twelve weeks arguing about the President's right to send troops to Europe, twelve weeks investigating crime, eight weeks investigating the MacArthur affair. But much of that activity would resolve into nothing more than a stack of faded clippings. Meanwhile, "the world's greatest legislative body" dragged confusedly along on its main work...
...proper function of the university, wrote Newman, is 'teaching universal knowledge.' " Your readers will agree that TIME has earned a niche in that category...
...Washington airport, with stairways and ramps instead of elevators* to save wartime materials, and with five sides to add wall space without adding walking time (the way to save steps is to walk around the hub-like ring to a numbered corridor, then walk out the spoke to the proper ring). Each of its five outer walls is roughly the length of three football fields, and in all, its corridors stretch for 17½ miles...
...turn out to be two little geisha girls named First Flower and Lotus Blossom, he thinks his career is cooked. But the men of his village, usually appalled at the prospect of hard work, are so charmed by the geishas that they enthusiastically pitch in to build them a proper teahouse. To do so, it is necessary to scrounge and improvise, and soon Captain Fisby, who is weak on Army directives but strong on old-fashioned initiative, finds himself supervising a complex business combine. His once-sleepy village distills sweet-potato brandy, manufactures salt, china and wooden sandals, sponsors wrestling...