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Word: properous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...similar picture appearing in the Sept. 24 issue of the central Hungarian Communist daily, Szabad Nép. The Communist explanation runs as follows: "According to the Geneva international agreement, P.W.s must be treated humanely, they must not be deprived of their personal belongings and must be provided with proper clothing and footgear. The imperialist troops, murderers of thousands of the peaceful Korean people, scornfully disdain the most elementary rules of humanity as well as international agreements. This picture shows an American soldier driving along previously stripped Korean P.W.s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 27, 1950 | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

...center of intelligence and education in this cultural backwash. The trouble for them and most of their friends is that intelligence and education simply enable them to see the appalling sterility of the rest of their friends, the town, and the whole country. This fills them with a proper Russian despair...

Author: By John R. W. smail, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 11/25/1950 | See Source »

Mory's is still a private club, and about as private as the men's room in Grand Central. Almost any upperclassman can join, by countersigning two friends who are members and waiting until his application blank acquires the proper degree of mustiness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: . . . Where the Eli Meet to Eat | 11/25/1950 | See Source »

...finest prose stylists writing today. He is a master stery-teller--"Helena" does not lag, even without a real plot. He has a delicate touch in recording the Inanities (and worse) of civilization. But "Helena" lacks the religiousness of a religious story, and the bite of a proper satire. What remains is mere teeth...

Author: By John R. W. small, | Title: Satire Gone to Seed | 11/16/1950 | See Source »

...engineering and applied science departments have been in a state of flux since their inception, with Vanevar Bush heading an advisory committee for the determination of proper distribution of the McKay money. Facilities for E.S.A.P. and some mechanical engineering equipment have been housed in temporary structures in back of the biology laboratories...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Applied Sciences Lab Will Be Built on Oxford St. | 11/7/1950 | See Source »

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