Word: properly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would have been had I been taken out of school at the age of 14 and put to work and tried out at various vocations to discover what pleased me; and if I found I needed more book learning, then, and only then, I could return to the proper school to learn what I needed, instead of being filled with a lot of useless junk that the educational experts thought I should be filled with...
...follows me to work . . . tries to take me home . . . chases me . . . whistles at me from behind trees and peers at me from behind pillars . .. leaps out at me on the street . . . scares me witless by jumping at me from doorways." Protested 74-year-old Hall to police: "This is proper conduct for a man wooing a woman...
...Russia. Just the man, the P.M. thought-until he learned that Wilgress, now at the I.T.O. meeting in Havana, was exhausted and would not accept the job. Other candidates? The P.M.'s advisers shrugged; Canada, with a young striped-pants corps, simply did not have anyone else with proper experience...
...next spring the new federation may have 2,000,000 members-as many as, or more than, the Communist remnant of the C.G.T. proper, which once (early in 1947) boasted 6,000,000 members. It was evident that Premier Schuman, who was recently photographed at a carnival gaily throwing balls, had thrown much more than that at French Communism. He had not only beaten the insurrection; he had shaken the patriotic and moderate elements of French labor out of Red control. The shrunken C.G.T. could not be a nightmare any longer; it could only be a nuisance...
...afterwards labored in their silent studios to preserve the immediacy of the plays in paint. One who succeeded was an obscure master named Bernardino Luini, living in Milan. For such artists as Luini, the birth of Christ was not merely a historical event to be celebrated in its proper season, but .an ever-present reality-as immediate as the birth of one's own son-and so he saw nothing strange in taking it from its temporal context and creating a contemporary Italian Bethlehem. The result was sometimes as stilted-looking as an amateur theatrical, but its wholly unsentimental...