Word: proper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...withstanding all this and the scornful claim of the cognoscenti that after all the Pops are not cultural but pander to the vulgar taste for the simple and obvious, the Vagabond will attend them, and will be seen almost any night, armed with the proper sustenance and a cigar, listening to the music and wishing that the beer were real and that he were sitting under the cool and fragrant shade of the linden trees in--But that is pure nostalgia...
...With proper expectation of contracts to design airports, architects at the Architectural & Allied Arts Exposition in Manhattan (TIME, April 22), secured a day last week to express their ideas. Naturally they warned against too precipitate airport building. Aviation still does not know what it requires in fields. Bad example is England's Croydon field. It was remodeled and enlarged just a year ago. Now it must be altered again at great cost. Airport ideas presented at Manhattan included underground passages to holes where planes would be waiting ready to start, great landing platforms over steamship piers, and a community...
...America there are no facilities for being lazy, and laziness is fully as important as diligence, in its proper place. It's nice to sit in a cafe. It's comfortable. The go-getter stops panting. The world resumes its normal shape. You know, I like the way European cities take care of their people. The large parks, the wide boulevards, the sidewalk cafes! Say, it's nice to sit in a cafe and have something. If Prohibition hadn't interfered, California would be the greatest grape-growing region in the world, making better wines than...
...There is nothing in this country that makes for its happiness, for the health of the rising generation, or for the health of woman in her later years, comparable to seeing that proper care is taken of her in her confinement. A great physician told me, recently, that if this were done in every case in this country he would close half of the women's hospitals in Great Britain. We have come to the conclusion that the maternity benefit provided by the National Health Insurance Act is not at present being administered to the best possible advantage...
...addition, President Lowell said that "the problem of education is to stimulate interest in the mind of the youth and thus lead him to make the proper effort voluntarily and not merely to find for him something he likes, which," he continued, "most often is nothing in particular. All education is self-education, excepting that acquired mechanically, and what one gets out of education depends entirely upon the effort put into the acquisition...