Word: proper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Personal Service. In Celina, Ohio, Sheriff Bruce Barber was fined $100 for contempt of court after explaining why he shut down the jail and released four prisoners: "My budget is inadequate to run the jail in a proper manner...
Denmark symbolizes the uneasy position of most of the Outer Seven nations and their fundamental long-range desire to join the Common Market proper. Much of Denmark's food exports go to Common Market countries, 25% to Germany. (As a whole, the Outer Seven nations trade more with the twice-as-large Common Market than with each other...
...almost all-German program, it was only proper that the first half be given over to J. S. Bach. There was the monumental Prelude and Fugue in G Major; and the three-movement Trio Sonata No. 1 in E Flat, one of the most treacherous challenges in the entire literature. Of the two chorale-preludes, Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier presented a constant parade of startling dissonances. Later periods were represented by Mozart's charming, if second-drawer, Sonata No. 15 in C; Brahms' rich-textured Fugue in A Flat Minor (a most rare key); and Hermann Schroeder's chorale...
...week's end, Hébert's committee, satisfied so far that the uses of retired officers' influence had not gone beyond proper bounds, put off further hearings on the subject till another time. Said Hébert: "Some people have said this committee will be a bust if we don't crucify somebody. To those people, it is a bust already...
...proper Bostonians were properly appalled at the way Amherst was snapping up scholarship students and leaving Harvard far behind. Good Harvardmen quickly raised an $11,350 fund of their own; soon it was known as the Lowell Trust, after the Lowell family treasurers, who began running it in their spare time during the Civil War. In 1922 the job fell to a modern and most civic-minded Lowell, astute Banker Ralph of the Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co. By last week, when he finally decided to hand the reins over to Harvard itself, the fund had lent...