Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spending . . . This bill is where you can save millions of dollars." Vinson quoted from the 1944 report of the Truman Investigating Committee, which raised hob about the Army's hotel leases and concluded "The War Department should review the entire situation in detail and report to the proper legislative committees of the Congress . . ." An aroused House overrode the veto...
...There Is a Limit." Marshall had observed, in discussing the possible impact of bombing China proper, that life is cheap...
...committee which selected Tom Bolles originally would have preferred a Harvard graduate for the job, but the salary offered was not big enough to entice the proper men to leave their respective fields for a life in athletics. Various other reasons made other likely prospects impossible...
...elder Amborski loudly charged that his son had been denied proper medical care at Fort Leonard Wood. He wrote to his Congressman to get the boy a medical discharge. John Amborski was proud of having defied the Army, proclaimed: "I'd do it again to save my boy's life." The Army started an investigation...
...Jersey bought one of the mechanical planetariums from a Philadelphia clockmaker and installed it in Nassau Hall. When it worked, students of "Natural Philosophy" watched planets on long arms circle about a 4 ft. universe. The sun and moon moved in their appointed orbits; hands pointed to the proper phase of the zodiac marked on a brass ring that encircled the painted, deep-blue sky. Near the top, an inset dial indicated the day, the year and the hour. To Scottish-born John Witherspoon, Presbyterian theologian and sixth president of the college, the ornate mechanism both illustrated the majesty...