Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...With proper reconditioning, some people with heart disease might even be able to climb a lofty mountain without ill effects, Howard B. Sprague '18, lecturer on Medicine, said yesterday...
...returning things borrowed from fellow classmates promptly" (social studies), "operating audiovisual equipment" (science), "telling how a department store facilitates trade" (mathematics) and "observing 'Do It Yourself programs" (practical arts). Social studies can also include "greeting parents and other members of the family with affection," while science can mean "proper methods of ventilating home...
...only by a mistress but a prim Presbyterian daughter named Morag who is in love with a corporal-piper. The newcomer makes the fatal mistake of issuing regulations on how the Highland officers should perform their own wild dances. The climax is as grim and subtle as is proper to a race which could take its whisky along with the hard Knox of predestination. In the end, the reader will have learned something of the manners of nearly extinct fighting tribesmen-and the almost equally extinct art of tragedy in the novel. As the grand and grotesque Jock orders...
...sportively professorial tone, it tells the young amorist where to pick up a girl, how to outfox a jealous husband or mistress, how to brazen out an infidelity (lie about it). It also offers a whole dictionary of lovers' lore, from aphrodisiacs ("Others say pepper is good") to proper grooming ("Let your toga fit well, never a spot on its white"). Translator Humphries, who has also translated Ovid's Metamorphoses (TIME, May 23, 1955), wears his scholarship as loosely as a toga, and occasionally carries colloquialism to the point of topical slanginess ("Imagine her fitted by Dior!"). Ovid...
fellow to care . . . All-embracing. I think, is the proper...