Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...modest record of his performance for posterity. I agreed, of course, and he prevailed with the Eda K. Loeb Fund, through the Mannes College of Music, to commission me to make the little film. I fondly wish there were some way that Warburg and the Loeb Fund could get proper credit − and TIME...
...Proper designation: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. t One initial law already is before the Supreme Court after being clipped by the Federal District Court and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. Both courts have held unconstitutional a Virginia plan transferring control of pupil placement from school boards to the state government at Richmond...
...futile past that could not be regained. His mother retired to a sanatorium in Germany; his father moved to Monte Carlo to nurse bitter memories until his death in 1944. At the age of nine, because his ardently Anglophile father insisted his son should be brought up as a proper Englishman, young Philip was shipped off to England to be reared by his mother's mother, the Dowager Marchioness of Milford Haven. She was a granddaughter of Queen Victoria and the widow of Prince Louis of Battenberg, one of England's greatest naval commanders, who had Anglicized...
...away from the vertical soon after firing. It had several stages, but Pravda, giving few details, said merely that when the carrier reached several hundred kilometers altitude and was moving parallel to the earth's surface at 8,000 meters per sec. (about 18,000 m.p.h.), the satellite proper was detached from its protective nose-cone and the burned-out rocket. The three objects separated slowly, following slightly different orbits...
...Joseph A. Hynek of the Smithsonian Observatory estimated that after the first week the carrier had descended about ten miles from the apogee of its original orbit and increased its speed by about 20 m.p.h. This put it far ahead of the satellite proper, and made it spiral lower. There it could be getting hot from air friction, but it would probably last for at least two more weeks. Until Sputnik itself shows signs of dropping or speeding up, its date of fiery death cannot be predicted. Dr. John P. Hagen, chief of the U.S. satellite program, thinks that Sputnik...