Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME is a newsmagazine, I told him but this word calls for some explaining. Unlike newspapers, TIME aims to report events in context, getting them into their proper perspective and giving you their meaning and intent. We also try to give their "whence" and "whither." Our underlying idea is that events, like living things, all have a past and future-which often hold the main part of their significance...
...finding out what is not worth passing on to the reader. This selective process demands a critical attitude and operates in two ways. First there is the information itself, for which sources have been evaluated and cross-checked. In developing the story, facts & figures are organized into their proper place, told as they affect men, not as they look in an account book. Sometimes, for instance, a man's offhand remark in a bar may tell more about him than all his political speeches...
...Only once in the week did Omar Bradley make big news. He, like Marshall, had been arguing steadily that MacArthur had been sacked not because he disagreed with Washington, but because MacArthur had taken his disagreement over U.S. policy to the public instead of arguing it out through proper channels. Last week, under persistent questioning from the Democrats, Bradley also admitted that the Joint Chiefs had accumulated some serious, purely military doubts about MacArthur's conduct of the war. Interest perked...
Hurricane Time Prim & proper Fredericton never fails to loosen its stays a bit for a gay old time during the annual visit of New Brunswick's most illustrious native son, William Maxwell Aitken, Baron Beaverbrook, 72 this week. The Beaver, Britain's No. 1 newspaper lord, likes it that way. He seldom comes home, moreover, without bearing gifts for his pet philanthropy, the University of New Brunswick (total so far: $1,500,000), where he himself was once a brilliant, tippling, debt-ridden, poker-playing law student...
...best years of his boyhood in the saddle herding cattle on an Illinois farm, did not learn to read & write until he was 13, dropped out of M.I.T., made a fortune in San Diego real estate, became a veterinarian, and decided not to practice the profession when a proper Bostonian lady refused to marry a "horse doctor." So Fisher went to Harvard, got his M.D. and became a mind doctor...