Word: imperfections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Paradoxically the drafter of Britain's ultimatum and threat to intervene was Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain who recently received a Nobel Peace Award (TIME, Dec. 20, 1926). In the House of Commons, last week, Sir Austen bared his imperfect teeth in a wolfish smile when Opposition back benchers shouted that he was "Bullying Egypt!" With the crisis safely passed, however, he beamingly announced that Empire sea hounds Warspite and Valiant had been ordered back to their kennel at Malta...
...Hoover from Washington to New York is evidence of this fact. There is a great distinction, however, between such a transmission over wires and one over the radio, as was first completed from London to a town near New York. It is true these images were crude and rather imperfect but images none the less. The shifting shapes of first a man and later a women demonstrated that transatlantic television to a reality...
...Children. Dr. Alfred Adler, friend and old pupil of Dr. Sigmund Freud,* wrote from Vienna that the spoiled child, the unwanted or illegitimate child and the child of imperfect physique are in danger of developing a feeling of inferiority to the rest of the world. They fail "to develop a social feeling. Social feeling is what enables human beings to survive in this world†. . . . We can now understand why all actions on the useless side of life among problem children, neurotics, criminals, suicides, perverts and prostitutes are caused by a lack in social feeling, courage and self-confidence...
...Catholicism, natives of Australia, primitive rites, a heroine of dusky beauty and high intelligence, and yet, strange as it may seem, the hero is a chiropodist. He made his fortune caring for feet in London and the Australian goldfields, and it was with his knives that he later redeemed imperfect pearls at Droone, the mythical antipode where he became a dark little power...
...importance. They had heard how he ventured down under the Passaic River's surface in one of his first models, with a boy to steer while he himself manned the pumps. When craft failed to reappear, divers had rescued Inventor Holland and the boy from the river bottom. The imperfect submarine had been hoisted up, dragged ashore, abandoned. Inventor Holland's late fame had obscured the failure of his first experiments. The Passaic River had changed its course, piling silt upon the abandoned hulk which, when salvaged, will now rise to the importance of a major exhibit at the Passaic...