Word: proper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sutton pass it through a special galvanometer-a coil that makes a small weight move against the resistance of a delicate spring. The waves in which they are interested are long and of low frequency (40 to 50 sec.). They found that by choosing a galvanometer with the proper relationship between coil and spring, they could mechanically "tune" their system to register only long earthquake waves and filter out shorter microseisms...
...tossing off a créme de menthe") and then reeled home to mother. Mama was up, and in tears. She feared, says Simone, "that Jacques had dishonored me." Short years before. Mama de Beauvoir had pinned together pages or whole chapters of books which she considered unseemly for proper young girls. When Simone inadvertently discovered that George Eliot's unmarried heroine in Adam Bede was pregnant, she hid the book so Mama would not be horrified at her knowledge...
...University with secularism itself, but only with it as it comes hubristically in its turn to pretend to speak for the whole of life." For Pusey, therefore, there is no absolute resolution of the dichotomy, but rather a balancing of religious and secular forces, each of which has its proper role in the University's tradition...
...this crucial question a correlation between religious conviction and political policy is dimly suggested which, if it can be trusted, is of the very first philosophical importance. There are two statistical facts 1.) that among the godless, American surrender as the proper alternative in the face of an otherwise inevitable world war with the Soviet Union was outvoted by less than two-to-one, whereas the general vote against surrender ran close to three-to-one 2.) the group of 215 who chose war include over fourfifths of those who were also willing to affirm a belief in the immortality...
...stating that the "sexual life" of a Christian marriage is "given by God for the benefit of his children, and is neither an ethically neutral aspect of human existence nor an evil which needs to be justified by something else, as, for example, by the procreation of children." The proper use of "medically approved contraceptives may contribute to the spiritual, emotional and economic welfare of the family." ¶ On the subject of race relations the Assembly cautioned United Presbyterians against supporting or tolerating assaults on the "God-given and Constitutionally guaranteed rights of all citizens, under the mistaken notion that...