Word: proper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...final speech, Richard Harris, comptroller of Norton International, said the real question was: "Is the President's trade program a proper prescription for the U.S. economy and our world position...
Pointing to a number of weaknesses in the economy, including a persistent balance of payments deficit, shrinking gold stocks, and "a seriously overvalued currency," he suggested that the proper cure might be a devaluation of the dollar rather than the reduction of tariffs...
...tutor in English, might be excused for his erratic rhyme schemes and his stammering metrics, if he had not labelled The Soldier a villanelle. There is, I submit, no point in pretending to a strict form if one violates it as flagrantly as Sommer does. If Sommer wants a proper category for this contorted piece, he might choose "virelay," defined as "a song or poem esp. with an intricate or monotonous rhyme scheme...
Recently, Sokolov used the name of celebrated bathrom product Draino misspelled it "Draino"--in one puzzles, defining it as a "Plumb- friend." Later, he was surprised through the mails a case of , sent to him by its manufacturer the Drackett Products Company, him proper spelling. Says , in explanation: "They used laugh when I sat down to write ssword Puzzles for the CRIMSON. n I got a case of Draino through mails. They still laugh when I sit --but boy, does my toilet flush...
...Bible with our questions-How shall I think of God and the universe? How arrive at the divine?-it answers us, as it were, "My dear sir. these are your problems: you must not ask me! Whether it is better to hear Mass or hear a sermon, whether the proper form of Christianity is to be discovered in the Salvation Army or in 'Christian Science.' whether your religion should be more a religion of the understanding, or of the feelings, you can and must decide for yourself." The Bible tells us not how we should talk with...