Word: proper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doubt very much whether the real lock could be located from the air. I suggested this to the Secretary of War, who referred it to the Chief of the Panama Canal Office, Washington, who said the "suggestion was interesting and would be brought to the attention of the proper officials for consideration." . . . H. C. CLARK Delaware City...
...conference saw him in vigorous mood, as ebullient and confident as in the crisis days of 1933. Behind him sat pale, libertarian Frank Murphy. Mr. Roosevelt announced that what he was about to say would justify no scarelines, nothing but calm. He said this again, and again. "For the proper observance, safeguarding and enforcing of the neutrality of the United States," he then proclaimed a national emergency. (Orally he called it a "limited emergency" by way of minimizing it.) By that stroke he assumed many powers which would be his in actual war. Having done so, he may, among other...
...aide handed Page a message: the Lusitania had been sunk by a German submarine and 1,198 men, women and children were drowned, 124 of them Americans. With that, Page dropped his last pretense at neutrality. He wrote: "I can see only one proper thing: that all the world should fall to and hunt this wild beast down...
Tactics. Terse communiqués from the French War Ministry grew increasingly informative as the week's action developed in the Saar sector. Between the massive, deep networks of the Westwall proper and the international boundary, were not only forests of trees, but forests of pill boxes and blockhouses (called "Bunkers" by the Germans), bristling with machine guns and connected by deep trenches with the main fortifications behind. The machine guns were so placed that every foot of passable terrain was swept by two or more death-spitting muzzles. First task of the French was to feel out these...
...high concentration of poisonous urea. Best treatment for wound shock, discovered in the last year of World War I: 1) small doses of morphine for relief of pain; 2) an abundance of blankets and hot water bottles to prevent chill; 3) plenty of warm, sweet tea to restore a proper water balance; 4) blood transfusion to avoid blood poisoning; 5) operation as soon as the patient comes out of shock...