Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Korea] are bound to the roads because their vehicles cannot negotiate the terrain off the roads. Even the movement of our foot soldiers is restricted . .. because supplies must be brought to them by vehicles. Thus, the enemy is able to advance in other areas, infiltrating and outflanking . . . With a proper complement of mounted units, cavalry, pack artillery and pack trains, because of their great cross-country mobility, the enemy infiltration and flank attacks could have been checked or prevented...
...student life . . . The cultivation of learning alone produces not a university but a research Institute. The sole concern with the student life produces an academic country club or merely a football team maneuvering under a collegiate banner. The future of the university tradition in America depends on keeping a proper balance between the four essential Ingredients. . ." PRESIDENT CONANT, TERCENTENARY ADDRESS, 1936. Classes of 1954 at a Glance HARVARD YALE PRINCETON DARTMOUTH Gross number of applicants 3000 3000 3200 3380 Number In class 1150 1049 763 719 Number Interviews (approximate) 2000 2000 1800 3300 Geographical Distribution: New England...
...Baird Hastings, Hamilton Kuhn Professor of Biological Chemistry, told the Sponsors of the Harvard Foundation for Advanced Study and Research last night that new scientific knowledge will be just as necessary in the future as the proper application of knowledge we already-have. Hastings spoke at a private dinner given at Dunster House...
...than Syria. Her people work the land with wooden plows as they did centuries ago; crops in even the best years barely provide subsistence living. Most peasants are sharecroppers, chronically in debt to moneylenders. Yet, potentially, Syria is a rich land, well able to support twice her present population. Proper irrigation would double her arable land. U.N. experts have drawn up plans for a pilot irrigation project: with $15 million Syria could drain the vast Ghab marshes, divert the surplus water for irrigation and put 148,000 acres to the plow...
Penguins, he found, are as proper as they look, and they are reasonably faithful mates. Most of their "marriages" last for more than one season. The main threat to family stability is the normal surplus of "unemployed males." Every female penguin gets plenty of propositions. She usually chills the encroacher with a fixed, glassy stare, but sometimes she first tolerates, then welcomes his attentions. It takes a long time to break up a penguin home, for a new pair can be formed only after a long period of ceremonial adjustment...