Word: imperfectibility
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sold out his Tokyo mother-of-pearl business, moved to oyster-packed Ago Bay to experiment. In four years he had his first but imperfect pearl. In 19 years he had so perfected his process that few amateurs could distinguish cultured pearls from natural ones...
...West's conflicting answers had been clarified, but not reconciled. In a report to the U.S. people this week, Secretary Byrnes put it this way: "The drafts of treaties agreed upon are . . . the best which human wit could get the four principal Allies to agree upon ... in this imperfect and war-weary world...
...ridgeling is a cryptorchid or a half-castrated animal; a freemartin is a sexually imperfect heifer...
Flavius Vegetius Renatus, 4th Century Rome's George Fielding Eliot, propounded one of history's catchiest slogans "Si vis pacem, para bellum" (If you want peace, arm for war). During the days of fitful peace that followed World War II, mankind still clung tightly (but with imperfect confidence) to this maxim. All over the world, March brought martial demonstrations of preparedness...
...Peiping. He talked earnestly with top U.S. officers in China, reportedly advised Washington to withdraw U.S. marines gradually (in about three months). But some Americans in China would risk a stronger U.S. policy and go all-out to insure China's peace by supporting Chiang's Government, imperfect...