Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Truculent had been lost. Divina's Captain Hammer-berg explained: "I had no idea we had struck a submarine. We all thought it was some kind of surface vessel and that there would be survivors swimming in the water. We did what I considered-and still consider-the proper thing. We launched a lifeboat and threw out life belts. The survivors we did pick up were not in any fit state to talk and we continued rescue operations without realizing that it was a submarine...
...called the Sanity Code. The code permitted athletes free tuition and one free training-table meal a day in season, and stipulated that part-time jobs held by athletes must be real jobs. Some 300 coaches accepted the code with their left hands and then hurried off about their proper pre-season business...
...example, multiply a 16-digit number by another number just as long, subtract something from the product, square the result and add something to the square. From time to time it refers to tables of figures imbedded in its memory, selects the proper figure and includes it in its calculations. It remembers intermediate figures for a fraction of a second, uses them when needed, and then rubs them out like chalk marks on a blackboard. It does all these things and more, without mistakes, faster than a human being can jot down a single figure. When the machine is through...
...Shakespearian "fool" with the chorus of a Greek drama, and his bitter words seem to be the theme of the play "still wars and lechery--nothing else holds fashion." Albert Marre has avoided the ranting style he used in the previous performance, and speaks with just about the proper degree of bitter cynicism...
Criticizing the present provision that more than one woman must be entertained at any one time, and under "proper conditions of chaperonage when necessary," the Council listed several complaints...