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Word: properous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first time in years, Symphony Hall heard a great Bach choral work yesterday afternoon, presented both with inspiration and a proper number of performers. Gone were the monster choruses and bloated orchestras, which have often distorted the music. The Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus used about a hundred singers, and Mr. Munch cut the orchestra down to seventy, as musicologists recommend...

Author: By Apolion Musagetas, | Title: The Music Box | 3/24/1951 | See Source »

...three sizes of compartment around the center make it necessary to plan out ahead all the items desired so that the right size can be tendered for each, and the proper foods placed adjacent one another to minimize the number of rotations during the eating process...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 3/21/1951 | See Source »

Last week, as churchbells pealed out for the newlyweds, the Flyer was running again. Grinned the bridegroom: "It's been a proper joke around here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A Proper Joke | 3/19/1951 | See Source »

...only one new "argument" that twice since 1940 the Dean's Office has stamped out a publication that seemed to be subject to one or the other of these weaknesses. This calling to mind of past Dean's Office practice does not, of course, prove that this practice was proper; but it does serve to indicate why University Hall is so worried as to want to control new publications more rigidly than other new groups. The specter of the "New Student" and its radical opinions (which did the beautiful name of Harvard no good, presumably) hangs over the new stricter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letter Imperfect | 3/19/1951 | See Source »

Author of the letter was Genevieve Geller, newly-elected editor of the "Wellesley College News," who hopes students will do the proper thing with the innocuous eyesore." Miss Geller, referred to in the latest issue of the "News" as "that luscious and charming grass cop," is also "singles and doubles outdoor and indoor Russian Roulette Champion" and Head of Grounds Committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wellesley Junior Asks for Fower Bottles on Weekends | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

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