Word: proper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through many countries of Europe and Africa. Even though we are in places where important news is happening, we usually don't get a complete picture of the situation from the local papers. TIME summarizes the situation concisely and, generally, accurately. Also, it places the situation in its proper perspective-looking at it from a detached position, free from local emotions. Besides, TIME often tells us some important news of the countries we are soon to visit, thereby preparing us for any possible changes...
When astronomers (or science-fiction writers) speculate about nonearthly kinds of life, they generally think of strange beings existing on planets revolving around a star that is at the proper distance to keep them reasonably warm. Astronomer Harlow Shapley, former head of the Harvard Observatory, has figured that there are probably 100,000 life-bearing planets in the Milky Way galaxy. Last week Shapley suggested that the universe may contain another class of celestial bodies that could sustain life. They are neither planets nor true stars, and are somewhere in between the two in size-perhaps 100 times bigger than...
...report, Dean Bender commented on the large (19 per cent) number of Harvard sons in the Class of '61. "Clearly considerable weight has been placed on Harvard parentage by the Admissions Committee, more weight than some will think is proper.... The fact is that the Harvard-son group is, academically at least, somewhat less able than the admissible candidate group as a whole, so that preference given to Harvard sons is greater than would appear from the above figures...
...universities, Pusey said, are the proper places for pure research, for in them the scientist is free to follow, without the pressure of deadlines, the scholars' "desire to know." From such a viewpoint, the oft-voiced opinion that science is incompatible with the humanistic tradition of Harvard would be greatly undermined...
...equally fierce Amdowa and Golok tribesmen, spreading the fires of revolt the length and breadth of Tibet, and putting into the field against the Chinese Reds an estimated 100,000 warriors, who were carrying the fight to the Chinese provinces of Szechwan and Tsinghai as well as Tibet proper. The Red radio protested plaintively that "reactionary elements" from China itself had joined the battle...