Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...imposed such a penalty on Dentist Peter Garvin for his column "Your Teeth" [Jan. 27]. As I observe the wholesale neglect of the teeth of children and adults PS well, it would appear that any attention called to the care of teeth would be a step in the proper direction-even at the risk of a little advertising...
...Restrictions on the full use of proper tools or equipment...
...nose was an awkward-looking, cylindrical "bucket" mounted on a bearing so that it could be spun, and containing a cluster of 14 small, solid-fuel rockets, 40 in. long and 6 in. in diameter. Atop the bucket was a single, 80-in., solid-fuel rocket with the satellite proper forming its forward part...
Sophisticated Instruments. The orbiting body, including the burned-out rocket, is 80 in. long, 6 in. in diameter, and weighs 30.8 lbs. The satellite proper weighs 18.13 lbs.; of this, its steel outer skin weighs 7.5 lbs., and the rest, nearly 11 lbs., is the payload of instruments. These weights do not compare with Sputnik I (184 lbs. without its rocket) or Sputnik II (1,120 lbs. with dog and rocket), but the Explorer's instruments are so light and sophisticated that they may send as much information from space as their Russian rivals...
...adult diabetic should get long-term treatment with either insulin or tolbutamide until he has reduced to a proper weight and it has been shown that diet alone will not control the diabetes...