Word: proper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tadjikistan now ranks with the seven other Independent Socialist Soviet Republics: 1) White Russia; 2) The Ukraine; 3) Armenia; 4) Uzbek; 5) Georgia; 6) Azerbaijan; 7) Turcoman. The joker is that all of these "independent republics" are federated with the Moscow Government of "Russia Proper," officially the R. S. F. S. R. or Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic. In theory the federal bond can be cast off by any Independent Republic at its sole discretion, but in practice such a step would bring Red Army divisions hot from Moscow...
...Hamblin, plans are now being made to build a bigger botanic garden somewhere else, as an outlet for the enthusiasm for gardening, and to divert feeling in the present situation. "Whether or not the Garden can be used for anything other than a botanic garden is for the proper officials to say," was his statement. "The public will soon center its interests on something else...
...Garden is no longer to be operated as during the past five years, but because of failure of the Visiting Committee to guarantee the proper financial support, it is now to be closed to the public and operated only for such purposes in Botany as may be decided upon later...
...might a shrewd crook use a dignified manner, well-cut clothes, a gold-headed cane, proper language and a pretended association with a great public character to swindle a famed jeweler? One way might be to take the following steps...
...selected to share in the honor, and there is far deeper satisfaction in knowing that the members of the Law School faculty are taking such a large share in the work of making America safer for Democracy. For after all Democracy in a very real sense rests upon a proper interpretation and codification of its laws, and constant effort is necessary to keep the legal house in order...