Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...game of Hollywood tag with a Romanoff myth. Ingrid Bergman, the poor heroine, is taken in tow by a group of schemers (led by Yul Brynner) who want her to be recognized as Anastasia only in order to get their hands on her unclaimed inheritance. They plough all the proper aristocratic graces and memories into the haunted girl, and finally present her to the dowager empress (Helen Hayes). The pupil now and then surprises her tutors with fragments of memories that could come only from the real Anastasia, so that the film clearly believes in Santa Claus. Unfortunately Santa Claus...
...year-old Conway yard near Pittsburgh into the nation's most modern electronic freight system, handling 9,000 cars daily from remote-control panels. Electronic brains made by International Business Machines will sort, classify, route and guide all freight cars from an inclined switching hump to their proper tracks automatically; electronic signals will operate all switches; electronic scales will record each car's weight; radar-operated speed retarders will check the car's wheels to be sure that each coupling is made at precisely the proper speed. Saving to the Pennsy: up to 50% in the time...
...comprehending the divine plan than an infant is of understanding Shakespeare. Lewis advances this argument less through his stiff allegorical characters than through nimble theological dialectics, plus such gaudy abracadabra as temple harlots and garish bird masks that Ungit's priests don during blood sacrifices. But if the proper use of reason is to know where reason ends, Lewis' myth-making serves its purpose well, for the book carries the mind to the craggy limits of rationality where nothing seems more reasonable than the leap to faith...
Speaking in the Ames Court Room at the Law School, Berman noted that Law students today become "great craftsmen," but do not learn proper trial techniques. He said that a trial lawyer must "learn to speak with an apparent sincerity," and must make sure that "his face does not mirror the disastrous blows" being struck on his case...
...Other measures could have been used to raise state income," he said, citing "a proper revision of the income tax regulations...