Word: proper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...House superintendent and a mechanic, lacking a key to the elevator room above the shaft, were unable to free him until the arrival of an Otis elevator repairman with the proper...
...waves of krypton 86 have none of these failings. They cannot be lost, destroyed, damaged or stolen (there is krypton in all air), and scientists believe that their length, which is determined by the properties of the krypton 86 atom, will never change at all. Anyone with the proper equipment (present cost about $100,000) can reproduce, even a million years from now, the standard unit of length adopted in 1960. By use of an interferometer-an optical device that counts wave lengths and fractions of them-the new light standard gives measurements accurate to one part in 100 million...
...women students may entertain men in their lodgings until 10 p.m. rather than 7 p.m.. provided college authorities are willing." But with their usual imperturbability, Oxonians scoffed at the changes. Undergraduates have long smoked in public anyway, and girls seemingly prefer the 7 p.m. blue law. Said one proper fresh-woman: "I take my bath at ten, and I should hate to be seen in curlers. I would rather be seen nude than in curlers." Last real progress at Oxford in the eyes of most undergraduettes: a 1930s decision that they need not move their beds into the hall...
...seen my old wartime friends for many years, and was overseas at the time of General Marshall's death [when Mauldin drew his last Willie and Joe cartoon]. How about reproducing the 1959 cartoon for those of us who never had a chance to say a proper auf Wiedersehen to those old dogfaces...
Weiss and Taylor do not know how a mush of isolated cells manages to rally and reassume its proper job in a developing embryo. But they are sure that no special guidance can come from the blood-supplying membrane, which acts the same in all cases. Therefore they say the individual cells of a partly formed organ must contain information that tells them what is expected of them. When they are separated and jumbled into a mush, they can reorganize and try to complete as best they can their part of the master plan of the vanished embryo...