Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Proper Importance. Although Giles now makes enough money to indulge his passion for cars (he lost the sight of his right eye in a motor accident) and to live on a prosperous farm in Suffolk, he has not forgotten his working-class origins. Londoners like best his stock characters, such as cockneys, hard-boiled moppets (one proudly reported that he had not only spotted spring's first cuckoo, but shot it with his air rifle) and the Giles "family." This includes beefy, solid Dad and Mum, a scrawny pig-tailed schoolgirl, two older homely sisters, a horrid, runty little...
...ugly working-class characters combine good nature, impudence and long-suffering patience with a proper English sense of a citizen's importance. Example: a squat cockney in a cap, a runny-nosed brat dangling from his shoulder, strides past a cluster of bristling generals to inspect a parade-dress line of soldiers. Giles's caption: "His argument is that as a taxpayer he has as much right to inspect things as anybody else...
...Yale's and Princeton's rules are similar to Harvard's. Princeton allows women in rooms until 7, until 9 in the upperclass eating clubs (later when there is a chaperoned event), and until 9 in the underclass "Campus Center" which in conceded to be inadequate for proper entertainment. A recent proposal to extend room permission to 9 was defeated by the Undergraduate Council before ever being presented to the Administration...
...proper attitude of scientific caution is retained the program recommended by the Advising Report is definitely worth...
...Wilson cloud chamber for making atomic particles visible is a rather complicated apparatus. It contains moist air and a movable diaphragm or piston to rarefy it suddenly. This action cools the air by expansion and makes it "supersaturated" with water vapor which will condense into water droplets if given proper nuclei to condense upon. Fast-moving atomic particles provide the nuclei by ionizing (electrifying) the normally neutral atoms of the air. So particles (e.g., cosmic rays from outer space) that pass through the cloud chamber become visible as thin white trails of water droplets...