Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Will the hydrogen bomb itself be tested? The best guess is that it will not be, but it may be possible to add a small amount of hydrogen isotopes to an ordinary bomb and determine by the proper instruments whether it exploded too. This would amount to a pilot test of a full-scale hydrogen explosion...
...woman is ready to give birth when the cervix has dilated to ten centimeters, and should be moved to the delivery room when dilation has reached nine centimeters. Some shiny new interns at Lying-in, depending on this rule-of-thumb, have had arguments with Nurse Carmon over the proper time to move a mother. In every case that Lying-in can remember, Carmon was right. Said one chastened doctor: "If my patient had dilated to only two centimeters and Carmon said she ought to go to delivery, I'd take her there...
...course of his labors, Editor Mathews restored to a number of words their proper birthright. Though the Oxford Dictionary contends that demoralize is French, Mathews tracked it down to Noah Webster, who used it in a pamphlet on the French Revolution and carefully noted in the margin that he was coining the word. In his own dictionary, Webster also noted the word congressional. But since he attributed it to a man named Barlow, the Oxford editors assumed he meant the 17th Century English bishop. The word was proved an Americanism when Mathews unearthed a letter from Webster...
...comparatively compact City Center Theater, Stage Director José Ruben, veteran of both opera and Broadway (and once Sarah Bernhardt's leading man), made Manon move through all its five acts with proper sentiment and subtlety. In the pit, French Conductor Jean Morel kept the pace clean and precise. And the singing, French diction included, of City Opera's young Americans could hardly have been better...
...want or to become an officer you don't have to be a college graduate, belong to 'society' or exert political influence." To the uninitiated reader, both manuals picture armed services in which every man is continually taking tests by which he rises rapidly upward to the proper level in the job for which he is most suited. The theory is beautiful...