Word: properly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Each month the selecting committee, composed of Henry Seidel Canby. Dorothy Canfield and William Allen White selects that book which in its opinion is from all angles the best of those published, and most representative of the proper trend in modern literature. This book is then sent to each of the 40,000 subscribers to the club...
...Democrat) and, to be polite to the Gold Democrats who voted for his candidate, Mark Hanna gave Mr. Gage the Treasury post in William McKinley's Cabinet. Theodore Roosevelt irked Mr. Gage, and he left the Cabinet as soon after Mr. McKinley's death as it was proper to do so. He had done his work well. Mr. Gage had but two honorary degrees-one from Beloit, one from New York University. He disliked public office and detested politics. He liked business, and, after that, the twilight. He dignified both...
Toothpicks. "Perhaps occasionally toothpicks are harmful, but no more so comparatively than razors, scissors, safety pins, matches and even dental restorations in some instances. Why can't we be modest about it and derive the benefits to be derived from the proper use of the proper toothpick at the proper time?"-Dr. C. M. Kennedy, Des Moines...
Suspenders were lauded as an aid in the proper hang of trousers...
...intended," Professor Corwin says, "that this test shall supercede any of the present means of judging preparedness for college work. Its use will be tentative at first, and until experience has shown its proper function: How much and what aid it will give to the examiner is still problematical...