Word: properly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...radio announcer, the man whose voice, carefully guarded by the proper cigarettes, carries the news to a listening world, is located in a little coop of his own at the back of the press box. Because he is within the walls of his pen, he does not hear the dictates of the announcer so readily, and has to rely more on his own judgment or identification...
Once the appointment in gained, the intellectual standards can be met in either of two ways. A certificate from the preparatory or high school will suffice if the candidate has taken the proper courses; otherwise he must pass the entrance examinations...
...Civil Liberties Union accuses you of being disloyal to the ideals and principles upon which our nation was founded. We have sufficient confidence in American institutions to believe that they can stand the test of open criticism. We demand that our fellow-citizen Benjamin Gitlow be protected in the proper exercise of his legitimate rights of free speech and assemblage, and we further demand that the reason for his arrest be made known at once...
Charles Bernard Lipman's family was one of the relatively few Russian Jewish families permitted to live in Russia proper. (Most U. S. Jews who call themselves "Russian" were born in Polish or Lithuanian districts...
Nominee Hoover made some history. He was the first G. O. P. nominee for President ever seen in Tennessee. He stood on a platform in a mountain meadow at Elizabethton and, in the fourth main speech of his campaign proper, addressed the whole South. He implied that he was neither an orator nor a humorist nor particularly a politician. He spoke as a Westerner, as a member of an administration whose record he thought was good, as a champion of the Home, as one who wants to "abolish poverty...