Word: properly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago I waded through the story of his life . . . but the adulation got a bit thick . . . Congratulations to TIME, which has the proper amount of respect for a really great man but also the restraint to keep "hero worship" out of the article...
...time, Lindsay was the Master of Oxford's self-consciously cerebral Balliol College. But his students numbered as many underprivileged John Elkins as they did proper Oxonians. Son of a Glasgow preacher, he had long before decided to devote his life to both...
Having handed the Congress his prescription for quieting the flutterings of the U.S. economy (TIME, July 18), President Truman was now trying to explain the formula so that the patient itself could understand it. All the country really needed, Harry Truman believed, was the proper dosage of public works, some other financial therapy from Washington (the Fair Deal's economic and social legislation) and the close cooperation of business, labor, agriculture and government...
...lying, propaganda" and quoted the New Testament in support of his case. He blamed the stoning of Stephen and the crucifixion of Christ on what he called "the attorney generals" of that day. David Gilbert Logan of Liverpool interrupted to assert that the persecutors of Christ and Stephen were "proper Communist gangs." Outraged members wanted to shut off Willie's blasphemy, but the speaker ruled regretfully: "I do not think there is any rule which makes it out of order, but I must say it fills me with disgust." After almost seven hours of debate the House voted...
...avert a strike; "We are prepared," cried Reuther, "to use all the weapons possessed by free labor in America." The steel workers talked just as tough, but Big Steel's tight-lipped Ben Fairless showed no signs of yielding. Snapped he last week: "There is no sound or proper justification for . . . a wage increase at this time...