Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...light district. Once, George climbed into his pulpit to cite the names and records of the big shots in a gambling, bookmaking and prostitution enterprise that, according to a 1948-49 grand-jury report, grossed $2,000,000 a year in the county. Time after time he has jolted proper Presbyterians with his spade-calling sermons about pimps, whores and gamblers. Then, three weeks ago, he got the chance he had been waiting...
...Hershey still insisted that the plan was flexible and fair, but quickly added that draft boards had only been told that they may defer bright collegemen; not that they shall. All was confusion again. The new plan provoked cries of favoritism, questions on whether aptitude tests are a proper basis for deferment, and a spate of radio comedians' gags. The outcry sounded as if Selective Service was planning to exempt college students, not merely defer them...
Commerce to lift its ban on domestic sales, Green paid at least $95,000 to a Cleveland law firm. What, if anything, the lawyers did, Green didn't know; but they saw to it that his plight was explained to the proper officials. It seemed to be enough; the ban was lifted and the partners got around to reselling their hundreds of trucks...
...least so far as University Hall is concerned. Almost all contact between students and the college administration is supervised by seven IBM machines which spend eight hours a day translating names, grades, courses and other information on 4400 students into little holes, sorting the perforated cards into the proper order for any purpose, and translating the results back into English...
...Sorter, which resembles a glorified cigarette dispenser, single-mindedly sorts all the cards into class lists, academic rankings, the number of bald veterans in Indic Philology or anything Registrar Kennedy wants. When February comes around, the Sorter arranges all the course cards in the proper order for exam schedules; from there these cards are shoved into another big box called the Collator which ferrets out all conflicts...