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Word: proper (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were two paperbound books: Winston Churchill's Step by Step, Dr. Ivan Lajos' Nazis Can't Win. Beaming like newlyweds, they received newspapermen. The Duchess was bright ("looked even better than when she left") in a gold dress, a gold and black checked coat, the Duke proper ("looked several years younger") in gray double-breasted flannels and a maroon-and-white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Good Old Duke | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...stood out in his apoplectic fury: this, he reminded his visitor, was the Soviet of Socialist Republics, the fatherland of the toiling masses, the vanguard of the antifascist struggle; that any ambassador could believe such a slander of the Socialist State made him, Molotov, wonder if he was the proper ambassador to be accredited to it. The Chinese Ambassador left, to read in Pravda the next day the laconic notice that the agreement had been made. Molotov hadn't been told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Dizziness From Success | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...both ushers and ticket takers, the rule as to the personal use of football tickets will be waived. However, the responsibility for proper use still remains with the applicant. This means that tickets cannot be sold at a premium, or to outsiders...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ushers and Ticket Takers at Grid Games Obtain Free Admission and Some Money | 9/23/1939 | See Source »

...Still a war of nerves . . . therefore a proper precaution to fortify the nervous system with Sanatogen Nerve Tonic Food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Copy for War | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...World War hero, disembarked in Los Angeles from the Matson liner Matsonia, leaving his wife and daughter on board. When he tried to rejoin them, a pier guard at the gang plank refused to let him pass. At that Hero Reece grappled with the guard, bit his ear good & proper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 18, 1939 | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

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