Word: properly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lilliputian shouts. The lead pellets, though buckshot, tore only small holes in the ship's fabric. But they might have struck machinery, caused disaster. Had the Los Angeles been inflated with inflammable hydrogen instead of inert helium, she might have blown up. And anyway, it is not proper to shoot at the U. S. Navy's one and only big dirigible. Carpenter Merton Hankins, the lilliputian gunner, was arrested. Last week he was tried for assault with attempt to kill...
...witness of this consciousness. Money in any form always has a ready welcome, and it is difficult to imagine a better stipulated use than that of buying books. The Chemical library has found adequate and very handsome quarters in the Mallinckrodt Laboratory, which-bring with them the demand that proper books be forthcoming to fill the shelves. It is very fitting that one of the earliest steps taken to fill this need has been made by a graduate society and is the outcome of the common cooperation of many individuals...
...young and even little" Italian girls to have their skirts at least two fingers' lengths below their knees. Last week he altered his order to apply to all females, regardless of age, and specified a reasonable two inches for the below-knee limit required to give the proper external impression of Fascism's internal seriousness...
When nations make a treaty, most of their citizens take it for granted that that is that; that the proper state authorities will thereafter see to it that the treaty is recorded, remembered, honored, enforced -or abrogated if necessity impels. Not so lightly do 186 British and U. S. ministers and educators regard the so-called Kellogg Treaty lately solemnized in Paris between the U. S., Britain and 13 other nations, renouncing war. The 186, deeming this a super-treaty worthy of super-ratification, signed and last week issued a super-pledge called a "British-American Message to the Churches...
...Drys, Consolidated, particularly the Anti-Saloon League and the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals, were carefully watched to see if the President's broadening of the commission's scope would cause them to protest that their special handi work was not receiving its proper share of attention. But no protest came from the Drys, who viewed the commission as an agency that must inevitably recommend officially enforcement of a Reform which they effected unofficially. What they did mind was not having their hard-hitting prohibition enforcer, Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, placed in charge. Nor was Mrs. Willebrandt particularly...