Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this tumultuous moment in its proper largeness, Professor Hughes has called to his aid those seemingly incompatible philosopher-historians, Oswald Spengler and Arnold Toynbee. For intuitive insight into the mood of our time he has consulted the novelists: Proust, Mann, Joyce, Kafka, Sartro, and Camus. This seems to be the century of feeling rather than reason, and the writers were better able to feel the tenor of their time than the professional philosophers have been able to intellectualize it. The novelists were intensely subjective, relativistic, and often, like Kafka, gave a sense of the little man being enmeshed in incomprehensible...
Despite all this the Orchestra is better off than almost any in the country because of its traditionally loyal followers. The Friends of the Boston Symphony last year gave it $18,000. Another proof of the strong bond between the Proper Bostonian and his Orchestra is the fact that $80,000 came from legacies. The remaining deficit must be made up by a portion of the Serge Koussevitzky 25th Anniversary Fund...
...Chicago's oldest export businesses. Among their exports was the vacuum coffeemaker made by Cory Corp., then a small company run by Founder Harvey Cory. Young Alsdorf did so well selling the coffeemaker in coffee-drenched Brazil that he began to think of what he could do with proper salesmanship in the U.S. In 1942, when Founder Cory retired, Alsdorf and a group of friends scraped up enough money to buy control of the company. He added electric fans, stoves and air humidifiers to the Cory line, and in five years boosted sales from $2.5 million...
Artist Salvador Dali, 45, showed up in Manhattan with one of bis newest and oddest creations: a larger-than-life-sized, jewel-studded eye, with one ruby teardrop forming in the corner. The proper place for a lady to wear this surrealist bauble, he explained, was smack on her forehead, just above and between her real eyes...
...bottles stand on racks behind a high, thick barrier. Watching their work in mirrors, the shipping clerks select a bottle. With remote-control devices that unscrew the bottle's cap, they take out a measured amount of liquid, put it into another bottle and seal it in the proper container, which may contain several hundred pounds of lead...