Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...institution will enable students with selling and promotion ideas to expand them greatly. A student with a good idea will be able to borrow up to $5,000 to start a new business if he can convince the Agency's directors that it would be profitable and proper to set him up selling typewriters or toe-nail clippers. Within the rather vague limits of propriety, the opportunities for future hucksters seem boundless...
...confident," said President Eisenhower, "that they [the people of Little Rock] will vigorously oppose any violence by extremists . . . I am confident that the citizens of the city of Little Rock and the State of Arkansas will welcome this opportunity to demonstrate that in their city and in their state, proper orders of a U.S. court will be executed promptly and without disorder...
Syria. Dulles put the current diplomatic point and counterpoint about Syria into proper perspective by recalling Russia's failures in persistent attempts to dominate the strategic, oil-rich Middle East and eastern Mediterranean. In 1940 the Communists went after a spheres-of-influence deal with Ally Adolf Hitler that would give them control "in the general direction of the Persian Gulf"; in 1945-46 the Communists prolonged their wartime occupation of Azerbaijan in northern Iran, were forced out by U.N. pressure; between 1946 and 1949 the Communists sparked the Greek civil war, saw it fizzle out; in 1955 they...
...most students trying to conduct a business it is too expensive to rent an office space by themselves. It was with these facts in mind that a number of us worked hard all summer to establish a business situation in which students could develop and conduct businesses legally with proper facilities in the Harvard Square community. . . . Gregory B. Stone...
After quickly passing over the distracting decadence displayed on the cover of the Registration Issue of the Advocate (a cover strewn with stems, a sword, knife, bottles, brushes, legs, a violin bow, its violin, all complementing a long, angular girl fiddling in a proper literary manner, while the world burns) one finds little of much interest inside the magazine. Other than the happy choice of including no new poems, the editors seem to have made little effort to make the magazine palatable...