Word: properly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...also a staunch Monarchist? The answer was in a gutteral German affirmative. Moreover, since Monarchists assume that President von Hindenburg has taken the oath of allegiance to the Republic only in order to serve the Fatherland and not because he has renounced Monarchism, they evidently deemed it highly proper for them to attend with their chief. But enthusiastic they could...
When Don Quixote tilted with the windmill, he did his best to focus his crumbling and erratic faculties on the proper maneuvering of his rusty shield, the inclination of his little lance, while his gigantic opponent, being without a brain, threshed its huge flails stupidly, and glared with idiotic rancor upon the fustian battler. Harry Greb, middle-weight pugilistic champion of the world, is called the "Pittsburgh Windmill." Like the onetime opponent of Quixote, he swings his arms about and around, jerks them up from below, slams them down from above. But, unlike that mindless creature, he employs...
...allied itself with the National Congress of Parents and Teachers* in a "concerted" campaign to admonish the parents of schoolchildren to prepare their offspring, physically and mentally, during the summer, for school in the fall. This pre-schcol preparation was to be accomplislied by physical examinations, instruction in discipline, proper conduct in the home...
Uniform Ball. In accordance with the report of a committee appointed last March to determine what hardness, what softness was proper to a tennis-ball, the International Lawn Tennis Federation last week passed a regulation standardizing the resilience of balls in the U. S., England, France and Australia. "Under a pressure of 18 lb., the ball shall not be compressed more than .315 of an inch or less than .290 of an inch...
Sirs: In your issue of July 13, 1925, on Page 15, quote: "Believe nothing that you see in newspapers," and on Page 29, under Law in Providence," you prove the We have no such law as you quote. The of State "Police stated "that proper conditions with competent driv 35 miles an hour would be considered The writer of your item must be nearing 60th birthday. E. MERLE BIXBY...