Word: proper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bridge." Jacqueline Bouvier's birth, on July 28, 1929 in Long Island's Southampton Hospital, was duly recorded in Manhattan society columns. Such notice was only proper: the Bouviers were rich, Republican, Catholic, socially impeccable, and in their own less boisterous fashion, fully as overwhelming as the Kennedys of Massachusetts. No fewer than 24 of Jackie's ancestors came over from France to fight in the American Revolution. All went back to France with Lafayette, but young Michel Bouvier, inspired by his cousin's tales of the new frontier, came to Philadelphia in 1814 and became...
...Somer concedes that his technique is a compromise: too much separation results in an alteration of the original sound. Moreover, in pseudo stereo "you can spread the sound around the room, but there is no way to get the feeling, as in true stereo, of the proper positioning of the individual instruments." Sharp-eared listeners will detect that the Somerized orchestra has a habit of wandering about the stage: the strings may shift a bit toward center, a trumpeter may wander farther into right field. But most customers are not likely to question the illusion: the gimmicked Toscanini recordings have...
...buses enter the Square area. To dock at the station proposed in the plan, many of them would have to make awkward turns that would only complicate matters. Implementation of Sullivan's plan, he concluded, would merely "move the core of traffic congestion from Harvard Sq. proper further up into the Harvard Square bottleneck...
Herring gulls which lay only one egg "fail to receive the proper psychological stimulation" and hence will not sit on the egg as much as a three-egg mother sits on hers, Raymond A. Paynter, associate curator of birds at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, said last night...
Commenting on the difficulties of African students in gaining an education, Nkosi mentioned an acquaintance who was denied permission to leave the country to study. Claimed the government: he would be "unfit to take his proper place in South African society after an American education...