Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the hardest whack at Congress that he has ever dealt in public: "But now let's-if anyone is interested in economy, let's go to the things that are open for all to see. Take ... the ... great number of public works that are authorized without proper engineering studies to back them up. Congress authorizes them. Why? It must be for political purposes, because the engineering department has not said they are necessary" (see below...
During the Air Corps' lean years, Reserve Officer Schriever built up a many-sided experience both on active and inactive duty. He flew lumbering B-3 Keystone bombers, ferried the mails, made a parachute jump (with proper military permission) just for the experience, worked as a copilot for Northwest Airlines on the Seattle-Billings run, served as aide in Panama to Brigadier General George H. Brett, and courted and won the general's 20-year-old blonde daughter Dora. On inactive duty one year, Ben ran a CCC camp of 200 truculent boys near Lordsburg...
Throughout his quarter-century writing career, Fisher has shown proper disdain for artistic forms and conventions. Rightly called by Van Wyck Brooks, "The greatest living American writer," Fisher's appeal is primarily intellectual, not aesthetic. Contrary to most living American writers, he has a great deal to say and a large number of highly original ideas. His writing is voluminous, averaging a book a year, and hence usually gives the impression of haste, but this is vindicated by his great concern with honesty in the relation of his materials...
...officers of Harvard should quickly accept the recommendation of one of the University's student committees and do everything in their power to make sure that the study of religion receives a more prominent and proper place than it has at the present time...
...greats in the anti-Semitic fields, was only one of many influences in Kasper's life. Through Pound, Kasper learned only the language of hate; the sense of timing he already possessed. He has not lost his reputation as a speaker or an organizer; all he needs is the proper field in which to utilize his peculiar talents. The public has shown no signs of concern; unless his past again catches up with him, he will doubtless have an active future...