Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their population trends, more than half the towns found they would have to do some building. Farmington, for instance. decided it needed 18 new classrooms. East Haddam set out to build a new high school. To advertise its own plight, Stamford, which has hundreds more pupils than it has proper facilities for, put on a public mock trial: the People v. Miss Double Sessions...
Hearing of Carolyn Joan's planned trip to Rochester, Grady's chief eye surgeon wrote Mayo: "Some of us feel that the right eye should be sacrificed to make a proper diagnosis." Mayo apparently felt that the sacrifice was unnecessary. "Carolyn Joan has an inflammatory condition within each eyeball," they announced after studying her case. "It is not necessary to remove either eye for this disease...
...reference to the A.A.C. statement that the proper age for induction should he 19 except in an emergency. Carmichael said that it was the feeling of the educators group that "such an emergency now exists" and that he would so inform the Senators today...
...Walt Whitman, education was more than "a heap of disjointed facts ... a proper education unfolds and develops every faculty in its just proportions . . . Its aim is ... to polish and invigorate the mind-to make it used to thinking and acting for itself, and to imbue it with a love for knowledge." Unfortunately, Walt Whitman noted sadly, the minds of too many students were more stunted than nourished by the sort of "rule and rote" he had seen: too often, said he, "the windows have not been thrown open, and all lies hushed and dark...
American forces should move onto the continent, the non-partisan Committee of educators, scientists, and leading professional men said, "at such time as General Dwight D. Eisenhower may decide that a proper effort will be made by Europe in its own defense and that the total forces . . . can be effective...