Word: imperfection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...silk. "On my word." said a gallant Turkish Foreign Office official last week, "when the great ballroom of the Sultans in Dolmabagche Palace was filled with 3,000 guests in honor of Soviet Russia no ladies were better dressed than those from Moscow, though naturally their dancing was imperfect...
...reporter was reconverted to Christian hope. Leaving the theatre, he overheard Miss Ida May Sparrow, who plays the leading feminine role. She complained to the manager concerning the imperfect acoustics of the stage. (Mr. Dixon, the reporter then recalled, was afflicted at the time with a hoarse throat...
...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...