Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doubt very much whether you would be either sensible or proper to have a plan laid out for increasing cooperation," Jordan said. "Rather you are guided by the natural logic of events...
When Gen Ed was adopted it was not looked on as final and perfect, and there was a feeling that the program would need a reconsideration after some years of practice. Ten years then seemed a proper interval, and that would put the review any time after the next academic year, for General Education went into permanent status with 1949-50. Owen says that the committee would welcome such a review, but it seems that if such a study is to make sense, both the teaching of science and the place of languages should be carefully examined first. Excepting...
...talk of the lack-of-sleep technique which "though not a strong enough torture to induce people to confess," has its own terrors. "At a certain point you go to sleep all the same," he says, "even standing with a light glaring in your eyes. It is not a proper sleep, but a kind of half-dreamed nightmare. Hungarian prisoners call it 'the cinema,' and when you say you 'have been to the cinema,' it means that you have passed out on your feet and had visions...
...body, but "his insides were cooked ... A hole as big as a silver dollar was burned in his small bowel." Dr. McLaughlin has seen other, less severe cases, warns that high-powered radar microwaves (similar to those used in electronic stoves) can do serious damage at short range without proper safeguards by causing "intolerable" rises in tissue temperatures...
...terrible mistake. This is the kind of thing that makes criticism suspect. Any time he pans a show on NBC or ABC, somebody is sure to say: 'What do you expect, he's on the CBS payroll.' And bending over backward isn't a proper posture for a critic either...