Word: proper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three of these together, there would follow a poor performance--dispelling any illusions that perhaps it had finally "arrived." And now (with the five Commencement-time contests remaining) the team has left its followers with a vague sense of disappointment, a sense of much talent from which a proper return has not been secured...
Brad (Richard Hayes) is a Greenwich Village intellectual ("At least. I'm out of work"); Jan (Tani Seitz) is a proper Gramercy Square. Brad is the editor of a far-out little mag called Nerves; Jan has read it, "both issues." When the pair discovers that each has been "in analysis, but not now," they get married and begin making atonal music together. The chief trouble is that Brad's pad is a 24-hour flophouse for his weirdie pals...
...such responsible for the education of our youth. Such past connections would indicate at the least a certain instability. I can understand why people who have definitely repented and have set out at great sacrifice to right, as far as possible, the wrongs that they have committed, are perhaps, proper recipients of certain honors. I can, however, find no record that Dr. Bunche has publicly stated his past connections or that he has ever repented any of his left-wing activities...
Though Peabody had expanded externally as much as was possible, within poor utilization of space resulted in a haphazard and cramped arrangement of the collection. The dingy Victorian galleries were poorly lit, and old-fashioned labelling hampered proper study of the exhibits. Especially confusing was its incomplete and inaccurate catalogue of objects in storage. These major problems were not tackled by Director Putnam despite his awareness of the problems. The collection was not yet readily accessible, even to the scholar...
...casts of steles and the unmarked cases of Nicaraguan ceramics. The specialist's rooms have taken so long to rearrange that their usefulness as educational exhibits is disturbed for an unreasonably long period of time. In the areas that the Peabody can revise only when it gets the proper funds, such as the African and Oceanic halls, the present state is deplorable and quite untenable...