Word: imperfectible
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...productive of enthusiasm has another and a less fortunate effect; they crystallized an opposition to the ideal which went to reinforce the more obvious opposition to its practice. Fascism labours under no such handicap. Its critics are never sure that they are attacking the concept rather than a mere imperfect application of it; and its high priests will appoint neither prophet nor creed to dispel a confusion that is so convenient...
...sturdy but mistaken moralist, for whom Mr. Santayana, unlike Mr. T. S. Eliot, does not cherish an excessively warm regard. There is, as the third essay, a highly suggestive consideration of the theory of relativity and the new physics. The suspicion is advanced that "even Einstein is an imperfect relativist, and retains Euclidean space and absolute time at the bottom of his calculation, and recovers them...
...work was hindered in Cambridge by the number overcast nights and imperfect atmospheric conditions resulting from dust street illumination, smoke and uneven heating of the air. It was then decided to erect a new station for their work here in the Northern Hemisphere. This new station is located at Harvard, Massachusetts, at a place called Oak Ridge about 27 miles north-west of Cambridge...
This plan is admittedly imperfect and tentative, but the late unpleasantness should be sufficient evidence that the need which it outlines is far from ethereal. House Librarians have enjoyed a considerable degree of independence; and in general their consequent interest has resulted in efficiency. But as long as they remain practically the sole judges of their own management, one may reasonably expect occasional carelessness and abuses...
...should like to preface my remarks by saying that I am a firm believer in the value of the tutorial system, and by this I mean the tutorial system that is now in effect at Harvard. It is manifestly imperfect, but with all its imperfections it represents a considerable advance over the educational system prevailing at Harvard twenty years ago. In my opinion the tutorial system has been successful in stimulating the intellectual interests and the intellectual achievements of the superior, and also of the average, student to a point far beyond that attained before the system was introduced...