Word: properly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...continent that diets are going to undergo "a drastic modification," Davis contended. "In Germany proper, the food position has not been truly normal for several years. Restrictions are great now, with rationing general; but this is partly to insure maintenance of stocks deemed essential to enable the country to outlast Britain despite the blockade," he said...
...Italians, a humorous people, got a wry pleasure out of tipping their hats. In a country where the proper salute is an upraised hand word passed quietly that hat-tipping was an expression of the yearn ing for peace. Many hats were tipped on the streets. Humor of another kind was furnished to a fashionable audience largely of women in Rome by Major Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, founder of the futurist school of Italian poetry. After telling his audience that "the Italian is hated by the masculine world, but adored by the feminine world," and proposing the formation of a corporation...
...Many a gourmet and amateur cook has stubbornly maintained that no souffle lit to eat can be turned out without the proper French oven ware. For them, the fall of France was a calamity because French ware was fragile and subject to constant replacement. As Czecho-Slovakia, the Low Countries, Sweden and Italy were consecutively blocked out, U. S. manufacturers found themselves with all but a fraction (Great Britain's) of the $100,000,000 U. S. pottery and china market on their hands. They were geared to supply two-thirds of it, no more. Last week they were...
Under Selective Service Regulations No. 161, "The local board may issue to a registrant a permit to leave the United States (Form 351), provided the registrant's absence is not likely to interfere with the proper administration of the selective service...
Hence it is that our whole political philosophy is on the defensive. It is confronted by systems which silence competent criticism by violence and make utopian promises to precisely that section of the population which is least qualified to assess such promises at their proper value. The leaders of these systems have joined in a concerted attack upon those European nations, great and small, which had realized an ideal of personal and political freedom comparable with our own. They have demonstrated their intention to treat subject nations as servile inferiors, and have not hidden their contempt for the democratic processes...