Word: properly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Several visitors, sparked by Robert E. Evans '46, charged that a large number of undergraduates had been unable to vote because of a ballot shortage Thursday, and that proper precautions were not taken at the polls to insure a fair vote. It was stated that only 1750 students had voted...
...flashy in his conducting ("Was that the Beethoven Eighth? demanded one Proper Bostonian when Münch guest-conducted in Boston last year, "or the Battle of Waterloo?"). But when he is at his best, Bostonians will find the same electric brilliance and showy skill to which Koussevitzky has accustomed them...
...sophomores saw God as "a somewhat arbitrary yet sentimental old man who has a tendency to rap people's knuckles when they don't show him proper respect...
...Wallace offered his own estimate of the proper size of the Army: "Perhaps a million men." Reminded that Defense Secretary James Forrestal had asked for only 782,000, Wallace ate crow-without choking on any feathers. "That was a figure I pulled out of the air," he said...
...Army and Navy were then penetrating to many far places, and where even the Army and Navy could not go airships were carrying agents soliciting clients for Lend-Lease. Thus the board, in July 1945, brought out a brochure on Tibet by which it appeared that the proper spelling of the name of the Tibetan village lying at the intersection of Lat. 27° 31' N and Long. 85° 14' E was Mendong Gomba, not Mendong Gompa, and that to call it Men-tung-Ssu was altogether incorrect...