Word: properity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blimey, why carn't you Americans use English proper when yer wants ter be colloquial? Yer don't half muck us up. It took me rahnd abaht five minutes to find out what yer meant wiv "Things did not go half badly" in "Down the Middle" [March 19]. Eiver you says "Things did not half go badly" (viz: They did go badly) or, as in American English "Things didn't go top badly." Honest, I fink you'll find I'm right, 'cos I'm one of them British secretaries in New York...
...weekend meeting of the regents nearly six hours to decide whether Kerr should be asked to withdraw his resignation, and on what terms. The board finally agreed not to interfere directly with Kerr's administration, but it stiffened his spine with resolutions declaring that 1) students must observe "proper standards of conduct in good taste," and 2) university chancellors of all campuses are expected to discipline those who misbehave. "A lot of air has been cleared," said Kerr. But the forecast was for still more smog...
...trouble" because of careless lending, and H. Frederick Hagemann Jr., president of Boston's State Street Bank, worries because "banks are more highly loaned than at any time since the '20s." Says Ransom Cook, president of San Francisco's Wells Fargo Bank: "The proper criticism now is that banks aren't conservative enough." If Senator McClellan's current probe does nudge bankers in that direction, some bankers feel, it may even be worth the embarrassment...
...requirements for most prizes have either remained the same or become more general over the centuries. The James Gordon Bennett Prize of $235 is offered for an English prose essay on "some subject" in American government. In 1895 the candidate had to select a topic such as "The Proper Relation of the United States with Hawaii," or answer a question like "How Should Postmasters Be Selected?" Today, as in 1895, the Sumner Prize has asked for essays dealing with means and measures toward the prevention of war and the establishment of lasting peace...
...second casualty is political science. Having purged the classical philosophers, the Committee was left with the writings of contemporary political scientists, none of whom agree on the proper boundaries and methods of their discipline. To avoid confusion, Social Studies has largely deleted political science form the sophomore curriculum...