Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mather added that after a debate with Representative Donian, he was even "more convinced than before that it is not wise, nor even proper, in a democracy for legislative committees to be established to investigate communism...
...question when free speech goes beyond proper limitations is an extraordinarily difficult one to answer. You would have us act to suppress the local organization, by refusing to allow it to use Law School rooms for its speakers, Dean Griswold and, as I read your letter, by dismissing its members from the School...
...sure that the Duchess of Kent, sister-in-law of King George VI, would get a proper cup of tea at the matinee, the management of London's Scala Theater scurried to a theatrical costumer, laid out $28 to rent a solid gold tea service for the afternoon. Next day, Mayfair gossip that the duchess would announce her engagement to handsome Anthony Eden turned out to be far from solid. Eden's secretary told the Sunday Pictorial: "Not a shred of truth in the rumor...
...performance of the rarely played Opus 74, turned attention to the structure of the music itself, which represents several typical Beethoven deviations from traditional form. The scherzo proper, although in the usual binary form, has two sections of completely disproportionate length. The performers chose to omit the usual repeat of the longer section because of its length and the movement's repetitive character, thus subjecting the form to a still greater deviation...
...This does not mean that it is necessarily mobilizing for war, much less for the unconditional surrender of the last Communist. The complete extirpation of Communism is a proper object of prayer, but hardly of international policy. The U.S. can readily accept what might be called "conditional coexistence" with Communist governments. The general proviso is that the Communist governments shall not be able to lash out on a campaign of world conquest. Particular conditions would include 1) international inspection and control of atomic arms, 2) dismantling of police and slave states...