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Word: properly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...assumed his full Imperial Station. The second ceremony - of chief interest to Occidentals on account of the chair - culminated at 3 p. m. and was, in essence, simply a proclamation by the Son of Heaven to his People that he is now Tenno. This was the "Coronation" proper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Emperor Enthroned | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

...scientific theory, two possibilities exist. The Kolster beam may be skillfully aimed at the Heaviside Layer† and be reflected down to its receiving station, just as a pool player bounces a ball from cushion to pocket. The other possibility is that gravity will drag the beam to the proper curve of the earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Focused Radio | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

...choice between the two plans is largely a matter of personal preference. Many parents would undoubtedly prefer to send their sons to an institution where gentle guidance of the proper kind is provided for them. There are, indeed, already many colleges designed to suit this taste. Harvard almost alone has placed its full reliance on the undirected initiative and judgment of the individual student. Because it believes that therein has lain Harvard's unique glory, the CRIMSON joins Professor Morison in preferring the present system of robust neglect to any alternative plan of gentle guidance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A MATTER OF PREFERENCE | 11/14/1928 | See Source »

...centre is always on a line with the centre of the camera lens and plate. The finished picture is striped. Some of the stripes show the person or thing from one angle, others from other angles. When a second glass grating is placed over the picture it makes the proper groups of stripes seem a solid photograph. The pictures are called parallax panoramograms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Light & Sight | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

...mineral-laden earth. Ground had been broken for the $10,000,000 power plant of the Duquesne Light Co. on Brunot's Island in the Ohio River.* Celebrities and guests boarded the steamship Manitou, chatted away the half-hour trip from the Island back to the city proper. In the earth, the cut remained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Silver Scoop | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

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