Word: properly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...here at last is proper championship for the maligned denizens of the broad highway. And the defense is sound. Who, indeed, could suffer the meadows of Jersey from a Lehigh car window were it not for the rampant pianos and couchant spark plugs of commercialism which color the horizon? Life's sadder spots are indeed rouged to good purpose by the devices of bill posting...
...What God hath wrought!" the first intelligible phrase carried over Samuel F. B. Morse's first telegraph. But the two young men were so jubilant in their cheap Boston lodging house that their landlady threatened to oust them. For money to install his new invention and to give it proper publicity Bell was obliged to go lecturing. In Manhattan he got Charles A. Cheever and Hilborne L. Roosevelt to sink $18,000 there. The Western Union fought them, blocked them from going into hotels and railroad stations, where quick communication has always been wanted, profitable. (This early hostility has long...
...directors of two of the roads (the Chesapeake & Ohio and the Hocking Valley) are in majority also directors of the Nickel Plate, and voted these two systems into the merger without proper consideration for the rights of their minority stockholders...
...whether they said: "Very pretty and sensible. She is following in the footsteps of Mrs. Nicholas Longworth and many another society woman with the best interests of Industry at heart, and of Julia Lydig Hoyt, Irene Bordoni, the Talmadge sisters and many another actress who has perceived the perfectly proper and logical sympathy that exists between cosmetic manufacturers and professional women, whose beauty is one of their assets...
...could if it were moved by a deep and sincere religious enthusiasm, have the same effect in the developments of the future, that it had during the Reformation and the Puritanical movement. Dean Pound continued by stating that no absolute unity in Religion was necessary to give it its proper influence in other fields. During the Reformation there was a great diversity of sect, and yet underlying the eddys and side currents was a certain unity in feeling and purpose, which moving in a single direction. It is this same fundamental unity of purpose rather than a superficial unity...