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Word: properous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years he has ruled the delta flats and neon jungles of Jefferson Parish, near New Orleans. Clancy was at his imperial best when the U.S. Senate's crime investigators swooped into Louisiana last month with embarrassing questions about gambling, whorehouses and bookie joints. He received the investigators with proper hauteur and met their questions with regal silence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The King Meets a Christian | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

...School should not attempt to teach men the specific facts that are relevant to current affairs," Frankfurter said. Rather, it should give them the "intellectual equipment necessary for what we call the world' with the proper strength and good sense...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Justice Frankfurter Explains Role of Law School Centers | 2/16/1951 | See Source »

...repeatedly headlined hooded assault and fiery cross burnings, prodded lethargic cops into jailing several of the ringleaders, kept up a constant drumfire of ridicule. When Indiana Veterinarian James A. Colescott was chosen Imperial Wizard of the Klan, Editor McGill wrote: "For the first time the Klan has chosen a proper man, a veterinarian skilled in dealing with dumb animals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Constitution Wins | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

...atom bomb should hit a big U.S. city, the lives of more than 100,000 injured might be saved by prompt transfusions of blood, blood plasma or proper plasma substitutes. Under present conditions, nearly all these people would die. There is not enough blood, plasma or substitutes. Researchers are now looking frantically for acceptable and plentiful substitutes for plasma. Most injuries caused by atomic bombs (wounds, burns, radiation damage) result in loss of fluids from the blood vessels. The blood does not circulate properly, and the tissues, including the brain, do not get the oxygen and other supplies they need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Nothing Like Blood | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

...Baptist Pastor Galloway moved to the sparsely populated farm country of Arlington, Va. and bought himself an acre of land for $300. First he built a shack to live in. Then he built a frame church, with a small pool handy so that everybody could get baptized "good and proper." But Arlington

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Lot of Church | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

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