Word: imperfections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...statement issued by the University merely stated, "Professor Mather has taken the oath of allegiance. His oath has been forwarded to the Commissioner considers it to be technically imperfect, Professor Mather's attention will be called to this fact...
...plan advocated by the CRIMSON-requiring the comprehensive English examination, the scholastic aptitude test, and a careful scrutiny of the applicant's school record-is admittedly imperfect. Ideally, as stated before, "if a similar broad examination were to be given in every subject, the entrance system would be adjusted as nearly as possible to the methods of teaching at Harvard." Nevertheless the CRIMSON believes that all advance should not wait upon perfection. The preparatory schools, if freed from the incubus of the examinations, would be able to improve their teaching in accordance with modern developments...
...seasonal trend on Chicago conceptions and last week, in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, was able to state that almost every Chicago baby conceived in calm July, August and September was born perfect. But babies conceived in stormy March and April showed an abnormal percentage of abnormalities-imperfect spines, cleft palates, club feet...
...object is an oyster shell containing an imperfect pearl built around the remains of an eel. If the pearl substance had been fashioned into a perfect sphere, says Mr. DeMille, the result would have been the largest, most valuable pearl in history...
...fall off in 1928, it neither laid off men nor cut wages or hours until 1931. Then it cut hours 10%, later wages. Then, too, its workers began to grumble about working conditions: sandblasting was hazardous to the lungs; work at the kilns was deadly hot; penalties for imperfect work were too heavy. Last August the plant for the first time laid off men. Almost at once a local A. F. of L. union was established in the plant, followed, a month later, by a company union. Fortnight ago the A. F. of L. union demanded: 1) the sole right...