Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Burial? Nobody could prove anything shady or illegal about the Mapes Hotel loan, but neither could anybody prove that the RFC's action looked very smart. There was a more basic question: Was it a proper Government function in boom times to lend money to businesses where private bankers refused to tread? Wasn't RFC too often supporting an army of potential bankrupts, to keep them going against sharper competitors...
...useful device for adding to one's own status is to cut down the stature of your colleagues . . . and one most effective way to [do this] is to affect shocked surprise when a student cites another instructor. Just raise your eyebrows and say, with the proper emphasis, 'Did Professor Jones say that?' It is more devastating if you do not make any other comment, even if you could think...
...they had a few rocks in their hands when they said it, and quickly whizzed them off at Secretary of State Dean Acheson's elegant top hat. The Communist attack in Korea might well not have taken place, argued Taft, if the U.S. had given the South Koreans proper aid, and he thought Acheson "had better resign." Wherry loudly agreed. Now that the U.S. had decided to protect Formosa, as he had urged, said Taft, he felt vindicated. But Taft said nothing about Senate votes last September and again in May, to authorize multimillion-dollar aid to Korea. Among...
SEAC was sponsored by the Office of the Comptroller of the Air Force and will devote much of its thinking time to dealing with the fog of figures stirred up by modern systems of military logistics. If, in World War III, advanced U.S. air bases get the proper fuel, spare parts, ammunition, etc., at the right time, the pilots can thank SEAC...
...support? This is primarily the question the Christian mind should always be framing, for it thinks in terms of depth and not of extension-where it has not been seduced by a world demanding moral oil for its creaking machinery." Unless modern man comes to see things in proper dimension-"the dimension in which men are related to God" -then "we shall join up a lot of bankrupt businesses, hoping that the sum will show a credit balance...