Word: imperfect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...priests maintained a regular stock yard on the Mount of Olives," he said. "In connection with animal sacrifices, the Jewish priests required that only perfect animals be offered up at the altars. As many of the animals brought for sacrifice were imperfect, the priests permitted these animals to be exchanged for perfect ones provided for that purpose, in exchange for a small fee for the inconvenience...
...Hooker's book is much more than a Bowles biography. It is a brilliant resume of the history of the U. S. From the Whig revolt to the election of Gov. Calvin Coolidge on a League of Nations platform, Mr. Hooker deftly recalls to one's imperfect memory the great political organizations of this nation. Rarely has so much history been so judiciously set forth in so few words...
Safety First campaigns and horrible examples have informed all except those who will not learn that one of the products of imperfect combustion in the cylinders of a gasoline engine is carbon monoxide, a gas toxic and often fatal-in sufficient concentration-to human beings. Engines running in closed garages have been the cause of a rapidly increasing death list in recent years. The building of large vehicular tunnels, which are difficult to ventilate, has multiplied the danger. Only a fortnight ago, in the new Liberty Tunnels, Pittsburgh (TIME, Feb. 4), many persons were overcome on account of the high...
...Czech by Holzinger with the assistance of Miss Arnsteinova, a Czechoslovakian girl sent by her government to Smith College. Never before has this play been translated directly into English. The only other English translation in existence is taken from a German translation of the original, and naturally it is imperfect...
...seaman before becoming Germany's most noted dirigible pilot. He flew the Bodensee between Berlin and Friedrichshafen in south Germany on passenger-carrying service with almost clocklike regularity, claims to have carried 100,000 passengers without a single casualty in ten years' piloting. In spite of his imperfect English, he was able a fortnight ago, tugging the while at his well-trimmed beard, to keep the attention of some 200 men- aeronautical students at New York University, Army and Navy men, and aviation enthusiasts generally-riveted on a lecture of more than two hours' duration...