Word: proper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Manhattan brownstone is a one-room void with annexes: a postage-stamp bedroom sans bed, a bathroom sans tub, a radiator that has chosen February not to work, and a skylight with a missing pane for snow that wants to come in out of the snow. As a proper young lawyer, Paul has qualms about the place, but he is still inclined to be playful: "I'll come home early and we'll wallpaper each other...
Lockheed's echo-location system may some day have an important impact on antisubmarine warfare, for it shows that the human ear, when working with the proper mixed frequencies, can determine the composition of an unseen object. This could correct a major failing in present sonar systems in which whales are sometimes mistaken for ene my submarines. It may also put the Seeing-Eye dog out of business. Lockheed scientists hope to reduce the sound generator to the size of a flashlight; then the blind may learn to "see" with their skilled ears...
...Gardner not only arranged every object in every room; each arrangement expresses her personality. A not-so-conservative New York heiress, she married into one of Boston's most conservative families in 1880. Gossip about her eccentric habits soon developed--in part, one suspects, because the more proper Boson matrons envied her beauty and growing group of admirers. Of course, Mrs. Gardner willingly provided eccentricities for gossip--for example after missing the train to a party, Mrs. Gardner hired a locomotive, climbed into its cabin with the engineer, and shocked the party by arriving in this high style...
Last Tuesday, members of Quincy House voted to overrule a House Committee decision to contribute twenty-five dollars to the John Perdew Fund. Although the vote was ostensibly on the question of whether or not to give money, it was in reality aimed at establishing the proper use of House money. As such, it should not be construed as a vote against civil rights or the Perdew fund...
...fact, the Quincy House referendum has, by implication, clarified the proper domain of House Committee action. House cards are sold to acquire revenue for house activities. By appropriating money for political purposes, a House committee risks a boycott on House cards. Students will not volunteer money which a House committee or even a House majority may use for unspecified political causes. At least under the present system purchasers of House cards know that the use of their money will be clearly confined to activities...