Word: properly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Daily the Associated Press surveys the universe and deliberately selects from its manifold happenings such events as are significant of society today. Then it groups these events with a proper sense of proportion in order that the newspaper reader may have a correct picture of things as they are- the one sure foundation for straight thinking...
...summer was cited as an example of Associated Pressure. More sinister, the possible connection between this favor from the Administration and the A. P.'s obliging treatment of U. S. Department of State propaganda against Mexico, was broadly hinted. Reason for lapses in the Associated Press's "proper sense of proportion" was suggested by the statistics on the A. P.'s growing rival, the United Press, which now serves 1,100 newspapers...
...Pierpont Morgan contracted the disease. She drowsed for eight weeks, then died. Nor do doctors yet know how to cure it. It is one of the small number of diseases, including cancer and rheumatic fever, of which the cause is still obscure, and because the cause remains hidden the proper mode of treatment must of necessity remain haphazard and the cure a matter more of chance than of science...
Lola Cuzarare, 14, won a shorter event for women, accomplishing 28% miles in 4 hr. 42 min. Her sister, Juanita, 16, mother of several children, had given up within sight of the goal. Lola evinced lack of fatigue by adding a few unnecessary laps in the stadium proper...
...first time, Oilman Harry F. Sinclair appeared before a court fortnight ago to answer criminal charges arising from his leasing of the Teapot Dome naval oil reserve. This was the result of U. S. Supreme Court's unanimous decision (TIME, Jan. 31) that witnesses who refused to answer proper and pertinent questions when summoned by Congress, may be punished for contempt. Mr. Sinclair had defied a Senate investigating committee in 1924. That was why he found himself in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. After a ten-day trial and acting under specific, simple instruction from Judge...