Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strings. He designed them for a toy firm when he was down & out in Paris a quarter of a century ago. Next came a circus, composed of wire figurines that rode bareback, swung from trapezes and burst through hoops when Calder, crouched intently on the floor, released the proper springs. He entertained his friends with it, found it furiously lampooned as "Piggy Logan's Circus" in Thomas Wolfe's novel You Can't Go Home Again...
...methods of cybernetics (the science of control mechanism) is to look for similarities between the human nervous system and the brighter man-made machines. One of these is the feedback: some means by which either the brain or a machine keeps track of what it has accomplished. Without proper feed-back apparatus a ship-steering mechanism, for instance, does not know how much it has succeeded in turning the ship. Therefore it cannot decide accurately when to stop turning. It is likely to send the ship into wild zigzags...
...citizens of Little Bay Side, L.I. to like the husky new schoolmaster who came to them one day in the 1830s. It was true, as one pupil later recalled, that young Walt Whitman was "always musin' an' writin', 'stead of tending to his proper dooties." Yet he seemed to love children ("what a hum of little voices! . . . How pleasant . . . How healthful!"), and children seemed to love him. He never used the rod on them, knew how to liven their lessons with poems and games...
...Your chaps have everything it takes to make great soldiers-intelligence, physique, doggedness and an amazing ability to endure adversity with grace. The thing they lack is proper discipline. They also would be better off with a little more training in the art of retreat. I know they like to say that the American soldier is taught only offensive tactics, but if Korea has proved nothing else it has proved the absolute necessity of knowing how to retreat in order. Your marines know how, but your Army men just don't. In our time, you know, we were able...
...city got a verdict. Ruled Kiendl: since the Communist Party has "at all pertinent times [been] dedicated to the advocacy of the violent overthrow of the Government of the United States . . . membership in the party constitutes cause for dismissal of a teacher . . ." Therefore, said Kiendl, it was "perfectly proper" for the superintendent to ask the question he did, and it was the duty of each teacher to answer...