Word: proper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These extra Council gimmicks do get publicity and perhaps even bolster the prestige of its members but--more important--they hinder the proper function of the Council; to devote its efforts to pressuring various parts of the community in the name of College undergraduates...
Some psychologists maintain that the hypnotist cannot induce anyone to do anything which he considers immoral. Others assert that a hypnotized subject will exhibit any behavior, provided the proper techniques are employed...
Both of these positions are irrefutable, Orne pointed out, because they are untestable. It is impossible to determine what a given subject considers "immoral," or what constitutes "proper techniques...
...theological curiosity) he wrote about, asked about, or collected facts about-vacuum jars, the "humors" produced by yellow fever, machines for producing static electricity (fatal to some rats), systems of government and ventilation, the geology of Pennsylvania, the weather, the making of glass, the weaving of cloth, and the proper way to build a fort. When he was not advertising muskets for sale he was procuring them for his Pennsylvania militia, drawing up the order of companies and ordering maneuvers on the next fair day after rain...
...editors give their readers something just as sketchy as an hourly radio broadcast; and if, as the editors apparently assume, the readers have been listening to the radio, the papers are giving them something they have heard already. "A story is a story anytime and will wait for the proper and the best telling. . . . The unbeatable air waves are always there first with their meager most; but first...