Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wreckage of the demolition job that U.S. Treasury Secretary George Magoffin Humphrey began last Jan. 15. On that day Humphrey held a press conference to explain the latest Eisenhower budget. His prepared statement, written with White House assistance and approved word for word by Dwight Eisenhower, left an eminently proper impression of a Treasury Secretary defending his boss's budget. Then came a question-and-answer period-and George Humphrey struck out on his own. If long-range expenditures are not reduced, Humphrey predicted, the nation will see "a depression that will curl your hair, because we are just...
...head grows bigger, some of the fine material is blown out of it by the pressure of sunlight, which has more effect than gravitation on particles of proper size. This fine material forms the tail, which always points away from the sun no matter how the head is moving. It may become many millions of miles long. The light from the head and tail is partly reflected sunlight; the rest of it comes from atoms or molecules made to fluoresce by solar radiation...
...Bears kicked off with a strong wind behind them, and both sides soon showed that their defenses were better than their attacks. Since the Stadium field is fifteen yards narrower than a proper rugby field, the emphasis soon switched from running to kicking...
...twelve weeks. Their boycott had been a muted and melancholy protest against a one penny rise in fare (TIME. Feb. 25). Their inadequate diet made it hard for them to walk the 20 miles a day and also work a full shift; their low incomes left many without proper shoes or raincoats for the long trudge, yet 145,000 Negroes had honored the boycott in a demonstration of unity such as South Africa had never seen before...
...Crimson backs tackled well and used the wind intelligently, but proper three-quarter movements were few and far between. Even the forwards, who have stood out in the previous games this spring, played a half-hearted first 30 minutes...