Word: properly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...citizens were asked to tell which was which. The wife of an Illinois school superintendent thought that Germany was France, Austria was Yugoslavia, put Bulgaria in Hungary, Rumania in Czechoslovakia and Poland in Turkey. The average U.S. woman put only five out of twelve European countries in their proper places; the average man got six right. Only one in seven knew where Bulgaria belonged...
...Proper Names. In Haverhill, Mass., William Peach was married to Annie Cann. In New Orleans, cops stopped an unlicensed hotdog business operated by Messrs. Irving Veal & Louis Baloney...
...family in the apartment downstairs-or a family uncomfortably like his own. Looking at a tiger, he can feel weak, unarmed and humble; at a gorilla, helpless; at an echidna (a mammal that lays eggs), vastly superior. Zoo men have built their exhibits on the proposition that if the proper study of mankind is man, a subsidiary and equally wholesome occupation is the contemplation of the lower animals...
Bach: Suites Nos. 2 & 3 (Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky conducting; Victor, 10 sides). A proper and stately performance of two of the best of Bach's suites. Includes the familiar Air for the G String. Recording: good...
...cynical huckster's view that she is addressing "slobs in a cold-water flat." She scans with a warmly attentive eye her 500 weekly fan letters (suggested one: "Give us lots of love and philosophy"). Mixed in with the love, philosophy, recipes, and "reviews of all the proper books," Flossy also gives them an occasional unscheduled laugh: e.g., when Bing Crosby visited her show, her eyelashes almost fell off when she learned that a baseball game could last longer than nine innings...