Word: proper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...originally spoken into a recording device by Walter Jennison, a Teleregister Corp. engineer who could speak with the necessary clarity. Then the words were recorded on a revolving magnetic drum. What the computer does is to extract the latest quotations from its continually refurbished memory, translate them into the proper words taken from the drum, and transmit them to the listening broker over the telephone line. It makes no mistakes, never gets tired, and costs $100 per month...
...absence of formal student representation is far better than the presence of quasi-representation as seen in the HCUA. If the Deans wish to have a student group to conduct advisory studies at their request, then let them form one. If the undergraduates want a proper student council, then let us vote to establish one. As it is now, the HCUA cannot fill a dual position. I doubt if any such organization could succeed, faced with the recent attitude of the College officials...
Freund characterized the recent court verdicts on school prayers as "sound and necessary reflections of the constitutional guarantees of the First Amendment." He said that the emotional atmosphere now surrounding the issue "is not a proper setting in which to reach a decision that would dislocate a basic provision of the Bill of Rights...
...believe that research is teaching. No subject or course content can be static today precisely because of the broad research under way in all fields. An educator can better carry out his obligations by challenging and rebutting concepts of dubious value in writing. The cloistered classroom offers no proper audience for professional discourse because the arguments...
Gauguin died of a heart attack in 1903 in his hut on the island of Hiva Oa. A sale of his possessions was held after an "expert" in Papeete had rummaged through the watercolors and drawings, throwing most of them "on the rubbish heap-that is, their proper place." Among the surviving papers was a fragmentary note reading, "I am now down and out, defeated by poverty." It was sold in Paris...