Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britain's old King Coel, a Roman puppet of the 3rd Century, may have been a merry old soul, but his daughter Helena was a sober young gentlewoman. She made a proper marriage to the Roman Emperor Constantius Chlorus, and bore him a son who became Constantine the Great. After Constantine had accepted Christianity, the Empress Dowager Helena-by that time a doughty dame of 80 or so-undertook the arduous pilgrimage to Jerusalem. While there, she discovered in an abandoned cistern two baulks of timber which a great part of the Christian world has ever since accepted...
...decision was based partly on the fact that the protest did not actually forbid the production, but only strongly disapproved of it. It warned that "proper polish" should be used...
...nearly empty beer glass on the table and brought his mind back to the problem. This time he made proper allowance for the slippery patch of beer in the secondary, and the quarter spun through the craftily placed defensive team of dimes and broke into the clear for a long gain. Coin-spinning was a real art, he thought...
...week Squadron 375 was sure it had the twilight problem pretty nearly licked. One gadget it has found useful is the Pfund† sky compass which polarizes light reflected from the sky-and points to the spot on the horizon directly above the invisible sun. When used with the proper tables, the sky compass gives the direction in which the plane is flying...
...total capital investment. But use of the 1936-39 base discriminated against industries which were on the downswing of their particular business cycle in the base period, or had poured money into expansion and so had less than normal profits. Use of the investment base bogged down on the proper valuation of good will, know-how and other intangibles. In all such calculations, as the University of Chicago's Professor Roy Blough, now a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, pointed out two years ago, "Any two persons or groups of persons ... might differ...