Word: proper
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Morally speaking, for example, the proper use of intelligence is "commitment to truth." Hence schools should emphasize scientific methods of inquiry. For their part, scientists and scholars have "an obligation to render their knowledge in the most intelligible possible form; they should not glory in obscurity." Equally accountable are newspapers, magazines, radio and TV, which Phenix calls "the real public schools." It is their duty not to give the public what it wants, but to improve critical standards and disseminate the real facts of life...
...alert to identify unAmericanism and possible infiltration of the press and other media, such as radio and television. I have little doubt that a knowing public, having read TIME, LIFE, Newsweek and Drew Pearson, will see through their propaganda and recognize their purpose. Our national security rests on your proper evaluation of the media...
...going to let Mellon have the whole National Gallery to himself, are you. Mr. Kress?"). Even after the first gift, the Kress Foundation kept buying, in 1951 started adding other institutions to its gift list. To qualify, a museum had only to show the necessary enthusiasm, to promise proper maintenance, and be located in a city with a Kress store...
...though it often happens that their only tales are embalmed anachronisms, tamer than a turn-of-the-century bathing suit. But though the freshest report the Weinbergs present is 50 years old, this collection of the writings of the energetic group known as the muckrakers seems charged still with proper indignation; the stories are as sturdy and enduring as the fearsome old names-Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell, Samuel Hopkins Adams, Edwin Markham, Ray Stannard Baker, William English Walling...
Piel does call attention to an objection to shelters in areas on the perimeter of a blast which he feels--and rightly--has been neglected: the firestorm which the detonation of a bomb at the proper height can cause. As the size of the bomb increases, he points out, the fire radius increase at many times the rate at which the blast radius increases. Thus, "the 50-megaton bomb... must have a blast radius of about 13 miles, but an incendiary radius of 50; a 100-megaton bomb would have a blast radius of about 17 miles and an incendiary...