Word: proper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unfortunately, the Mayflower's pace as well as its passengers has a grip on Author Amory's latest book, and it is a poky chronicle compared with his The Proper Bostonians and The Last Resorts. He drops some 7,000 names. He delves into 27 tribal histories and relates them unsparingly, from the Adamses and Cabots to the Astors and Vanderbilts, not omitting the Byrds. For the rest, scandal vies with sociology, gossip with anecdote. The anecdotes, though frequently familiar, provide most of the fun, and in some of them Amory captures certain archetypal stances of social eliteism...
...sized pituitary gland at the base of the brain. It seems to be a hormone's hormone; when the blood carries it to the adrenal glands on the kidneys, it stimulates the production of many other hormones that regulate vital functions of the body, including proper utilization of foods. The natural substance is extremely expensive because only minute amounts can be extracted from the pituitary glands of slaughtered animals. Dr. Hofmann does not promise that his success will lead to cheap synthetic ACTH manufactured in large quantities for medical use, but it is certainly a step in that direction...
...Purpose. Murray poses his question cogently: "Can we or can we not achieve a successful conduct of our national affairs, foreign and domestic, in the absence of a consensus that will set our purposes, furnish a standard of judgment on policies, and establish the proper conditions for political dialogue?" Anti-Communism is a poor substitute. If Communism should vanish overnight, he says, Americans would still
...points out, and landowners are borrowers rather than lenders. But when Protestantism arose, its support-especially that of Calvinism-came chiefly from the rich middle class, who were lenders rather than borrowers. Accordingly, first Calvin, then other Protestants, and finally the Roman Catholic Church, decided that charging interest under proper restrictions was not a violation of natural law after all-although usury in the sense of exorbitant interest still...
...Group Agreement, drafted in 1954, states in Section III, "The Group affirm their conviction that under proper conditions intercollegiate competition in organized athletics offers desirable development and recreation for players and a healthy focus of collegiate loyalty. These conditions require that the players shall be truly representative of the student body and not composed of a group of specially recruited athletes...