Word: proper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sympathetic system (between the second and fifth vertebrae) which lead directly to the heart. With exquisite care Dr. Raney avoided damaging other surrounding tissues, left enough nerves intact so that the patient could feel the "warning signal" of angina. Thus, although free of pain, he can still take proper precautions to prolong his life...
...direction exceeds what its audience can take, it rarely eases up short of that. Within those limits it is extraordinarily warm, full, and actual, and by bulk alone gathers an enormous and serene momentum that ends by making the story seem as real and immediate as air. To the proper reader, Emily Fenwick becomes a useful magic mirror for solace, nostalgia, future-gazing, and self-comparison...
...advocates three free physical examinations a year, safe drinking water, sanitary washing facilities, and proper ventilation and temperature control. Some of the schools are in "a disgraceful condition," according to Carr...
...difficult to brook the transition from an hour of Italian art to the toothy language of his primitive ancestors. Even the free hour between the two, spent wandering about the Yard clucking at pigeons (if that is what one does at pigeons), never seems to set him in the proper frame of mind...
Bill Bingham was not a ringer. He and Charley Brickley opened and operated a student laundry of the type found in many small colleges. Initiative and industry along proper channels will never be questioned; Bingham had both and successfully worked his way through Harvard in this manner...