Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...black shoes, a pearl blue pin-striped suit, and a necktie that would have graced a diplomat's funeral. He fidgeted as he waited for breakfast in his suite at the Mayflower Hotel. "I want to be right on time," he said, glancing at his watch. "It is proper." He ate little, wrapped a napkin over his forefinger and rubbed his teeth and gums meticulously when he was through. Forced to wait before testifying, he sat in a Capitol anteroom with the stiff dignity of a British butler in an American movie...
...long range program of "mass-type" education, with intermediate activities in the nature of cooperation with the proper enforcement authorities: resort to the "expose" type of publicity and the development of organized services for community civic groups and large industrial employers, faced with current organized gambling problems, appear to be the steps necessary for ultimate correction of the existing situation...
...issue"--if it can be called that--has merely served as a pleasant excuse for idle Harvard undergraduates to take callow pen in hand and produce--Look, Everybody!--a Treatise. Students with serious qualms about the furtherance of Joint Instruction might do better by presenting petitions to the proper College authorities, or merely by leaving, than by cheapening their newspaper with a deluge of trite beefs. However, it seemed to us that most of the letters were written in a spirit of levity; if not, their feverish carnestness about so trivial a matter produced the same effect...
...church will be big enough to house various rooms for social activities and Sunday School classes in addition to the church proper. In addition, it will have a side lawn...
After Burke's broadcast, the Council reconvened and drew up a poll to scent out the students' view on the proper functions of the Council, in regard to service or advisory functions and the proportions of elected or appointed members...