Word: proper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Philadelphia Phillies wrangled with an insurance company over whether First Baseman Eddie Waitkus ought to get injury compensation for the bullet wound he got from a demented bobby-soxer last June. The ball club argued that Eddie was only doing "his proper duty in public relations" when he went to the girl's hotel room in the belief that she was from his home town and needed help...
Local authorities apparently feel that Princeton weekends are proper times for rioting--for they let 15 of the 16 students arrested last night go with a pleas of nolo contender and payment of costs...
...attack appeared first in the Oxford undergraduates' own weekly magazine Isis. Then the London Daily Mail picked it up and splashed it into headlines. All in all, it struck proper Oxonians as one of the cheekiest essays in years. As might have been expected, the author was an American-a second-year Rhodes scholar at Magdalen named Eugene Burdick...
...earthly home are unique n the universe. Collisions or near-collisions between stars must be excessively rare. If it takes such a cosmic catastrophe ;o produce a planetary system, there is a good chance that man's earth may be the only chunk of matter with proper conditions for life to develop...
...participate in a wedding ceremony in accordance with my wife's faith and she felt the same about mine." Excommunicated Claire made no comment at all. The archdiocese hinted that she could be reinstated in the Roman Catholic Church if she made a confession of error and did proper penance...