Word: properly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fields of contemporary literature one is not surprised to find an actress attempting the same. Louise Closser Hale contends that people of the stage have thoughts worth printing in other than press notices. And perhaps she is right. But the stage does not, after all, furnish quite the proper training for the writing of delightful and interesting fiction. Yet, as she admits, this is really with her a mere avocation--so one dare not condemn her completely...
...Sargent were giving a dinner for the President and his lady. Since Mrs. Coolidge could not go, Mrs. William M. Jardine, wife of the Secretary of Agriculture, was invited to accompany the President. In recent years no President has ever escorted a lady other than his wife. Proper procedure had to be looked to. It was found that President McKinley, whose wife was frequently ill, had escorted other ladies. So precedent was followed. A White House car with one of the President's aides went to the Jardine home and called for Mrs. Jardine. The car then stopped...
...down to brass tacks," was speaking at the trustees' annual meeting and saying: "The instruction in the first two college years in the United States has probably always been in essence what is now known as secondary rather than advanced instruction. On that account it has no proper place in a university as distinguished from a college. Under present conditions, where this instruction is given to masses of somewhat immature minds in probably the largest school [liberal arts] of the modern American university, the development of the best kind of advanced work is made difficult if not impossible...
...country he nosed around the ship's boiler room, noted the indicator that counted the propeller revolutions, bethought him of a machine full of cog wheels which his barkeeps would operate every time they slid a seidel of Extra Pale across the mahogany. His machine, when a proper key was depressed, clanged a bell and punched a hole in a roll of paper. On good business days the roll might run to a scroll of 20 ft. John Henry Patterson, then running some coal mine stores, bought two machines to try to keep track of his counter losses. Shortages continued...
...That adequate maintenance and development of proper facilities for general student participation in athletic sports, require a substantially increased annual revenue. The decreased purchasing power of the dollar has inevitably increased operating expenses of every sort until the choice new rests between abandonment or radical curtailment of the policy of "athletics for all" and increased revenue for its proper support...