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Word: properous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...furious global race to be the first to confirm "cold fusion" has re-ignited a debate over the proper role of the press in scientific research...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scientists Debate Press' Reporting | 4/20/1989 | See Source »

What brass! When she had the nerve to try to become a practicing attorney, Myra Bradwell was rebuked by no less a body than the U.S. Supreme Court. "The natural and proper timidity and delicacy which belongs to the female sex evidently unfits it for many of the occupations of civil life," wrote Justice Joseph Bradley in an 1873 opinion. A century later, the unseemly became ordinary as women, riding a new wave of feminism, swept through the nation's law schools. In the U.S. today, more than 40% of law students and 20% of lawyers are women. As their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Now for A Woman's Point of View | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

...order for this drama of lust and confused identities to work as comedy--in order for each mistaken identity and preposterous coincidence to work, and in order for Wilde's infamous epigrams to strike the proper chord--actors' timing and enunciation must be absolutely flawless. This is where the mannered performances come in. Instead of being annoying, the pseudo-Brit accents tighten the dialogue and actually make each word shimmer...

Author: By Glenn Slater, | Title: In Wild Earnest | 4/14/1989 | See Source »

Duehay said the amendments have not been written in proper legal form yet but should be by the next council meeting...

Author: By Stephen J. Newman, | Title: Rezoning Activists Offer Compromise | 4/11/1989 | See Source »

...have gone far in developing the technology of cybernetics and space travel, but we don't have proper equipment to dig up potatoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAMBOV: PERESTROIKA IN THE PROVINCES | 4/10/1989 | See Source »

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