Word: imperfection
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...cheer about these days on the local record scene. Victor and Columbia catalogues are incomplete or inaccurate; lists of many important recordings are missing and fine albums have been out of stock for years. The quality of twelve inch disks, while improved since the war, is still ragged, with imperfect surfaces and edges and gritty tone creeping up all too often. Needless duplication of the Tschaikowsky, Beeethoven, and Brahms symphonies wastes precious material while the lesser known but valuable works of such composers as Mozart, Purcell, and most moderns are sadly neglected. American catalogues list seven versions of Brahms...
Tired looking and jaunty as ever, he read in a slow, clear voice which even Germans with an imperfect command of his tongue could understand. Despite the language of diplomacy, Russians would also understand...
...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...