Word: properly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...beauty about track is that no previous experience is necessary to make a good runner or field-event man. Any man with a good pair of legs and some brains can be made by proper coaching into a first class runner. The preparatory school star with a reputation does not always prove the best in college circles, because others who are more willing to be taught and have a greater brain capacity can forge right ahead...
...task does not appear great. If space is narrow and the public limited, proportions at least remain normal. This would be fundamentally true also if it were evident upon what grounds of limitation, the choice of books should proceed. It is the perplexity of selection that renders the proper solution of the question difficult...
Jeers and hisses, mingled with spasmodic applause, interrupt Governor Pinchot. He has been jeered before; he proceeds: "I refused to support Mr. Vare in the election on the sound and proper ground that his nomination was partly bought and partly stolen and I have no doubt that he deserves to be and will be excluded from the Senate...
Italia Virile. Lest little Rico, Tito and Beppo grow up without proper enthusiasm for black shirts, castor oil and kindred masculinities of Fascism, they shall no longer be taught important subjects like history, literature and philosophy by women, but by men only, "in- spired and animated by strong, virile sentiment." So announced Professor Pietro Fedele, Italian Minister of Education, who last fortnight weeded out many a college professor and high school teacher possessed of un-Fascist sentiments. Elucidation: "Observation has demonstrated that women lack enthusiasm for philosophy, which they always seek to tincture with religion. They cannot write, and history...
...late President Emeritus could be more fitting or more useful. Professor Gilbert Murray, it might be pointed out, first rented an apartment and then stayed with a private family. Charming as the latter may be, it can hardly be considered suitable that distinguished scholars should not be provided with proper living quarters of their own. This need President Eliot's house would fill to the utmost for obvious reasons...