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Word: proper (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...resolution ordered the Chief of Police "to confer with the proper authorities at the various local institutions attended by students operating out-of-state cars with a view to having them cooperate with the local police department in an effort to list such automobiles with their owners, operators, registration and length of time they expect to be in the city...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COUNCIL DEMANDS REGISTRATION FOR NON-STATE AUTOS | 11/2/1938 | See Source »

...reason for the move was given as because "in cases of accidents it is sometimes impossible to secure satisfaction because of the lack of compulsory insurance, absence of proper records showing ownership...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COUNCIL DEMANDS REGISTRATION FOR NON-STATE AUTOS | 11/2/1938 | See Source »

That the University is a better judge of the proper allocation of monies than are donors is too obvious a point to be labored. Mr. Conant can invoke more specific arguments. Gifts for stated purposes, although rarely refused, have in the past been sources of positive embarrassment to the University. There have been lecture series, even professorships, which involved questionable and unnecessary attacks upon popular institutions, even upon religions. Negatively equivalent to this is the fact that restricted grants have frequently supported eminently useless projects. Arising, perhaps, from vital controversies in the eighteenth century, these later became unique for their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FLUID FUNDS | 11/2/1938 | See Source »

...That deprived him of large gate receipts. Then the Whizzer, who had scored 122 points for the University of Colorado last year, was unable to whiz for Owner Rooney. Some observers, noting that White averaged only 2½ yards per try, accused his teammates of refusing to give him proper interference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Lone Pirate | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

More than 75% of Chicago's passenger traffic is handled by a vast system of street cars and busses. Chief rapid transit the city proper has is furnished by its far-flung 41-year-old elevated railway system, 14 lines that creep and clang counterclockwise around the "Loop" encircling the 7 by 6-block financial and mercantile district before heading back toward the city's outskirts. Inside the "Loop," the property values are as high as the 45-story Field Building; outside they fall off just as steeply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Chicago Underground | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

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