Word: proper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these wider vistas that the pickle packers are endeavoring to bring to the surface. The job will be a difficult one. There is a disturbing cultural lag in the realm of the pickle. We are satisfied, however, that the future of the pickle is in good hands; given the proper facts, given the freedom of discussion in the market-place of opinion, given the technical know-how, the American people can be counted on to weigh all factors impartially, and give a rising vote of confidence to the pickle--a vote that cannot be gainsaid...
Present-day Western civilization, says Sir Heneage, has made it hard to make proper use of the mind. Man was better off in the Middle Ages, when he had a better chance of 1) a job that demanded individual skill, 2) some security, and 3) a sense of doing something useful in the community. Modern man has been straining so long after success, often doing a job he dislikes, that the strain has become second nature. Men of today, says Ogilvie, "are so constantly keyed up to fight the world that is trying to tread them down that they...
...somewhat crude nature" then does what it can to repair the damage. It can shut off some of the abnormal impulses by nerve-cutting operations such as vagotomy, or cut out diseased thyroids and hunks of stomach. But Surgeon Ogilvie has what he regards as more effective treatment: proper doses of idleness, for "idleness is a part of function." A change of occupation is often a good thing, too. The mind that has been driven too hard may do its best work when tension is relaxed and it is allowed "to find the natural paths that shape themselves in idle...
...stepped a silver-haired lady in a flowered saucepan hat, to stride regally through the swinging doors. It was the 100th birthday of Harrods, one of the world's great department stores, and 81-year-old Queen Mary, a customer for more than 40 years, thought it a proper time to drop...
Annex Zionists won back their charter Thursday after handing the proper credentials in to the executive board, which was granted power by Council to recharter both the Zionists and the German Club as soon as they complied with the rules...