Word: imperfections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scientific batsman like himself could calculate all the forces of his drive. To supply demand for such bats numerous Englishmen took to growing plantations of cricket willows, making comfortable fortunes therefrom. But lately growers complained to England's Forest Products Research Laboratories that their bat crops were imperfect. The Laboratories asked Dr. Joseph Burtt Davy to investigate. He found that soil, soil-moisture or climate could have nothing to do with the case, because select and outlaw cricket bat willows grew on the same plantation. He urged further study to follow up his suspicion-that good bat willows...
...example, is due to their great popularity. The Fall of Troy was a favorite subject, and the Harvard copy is of the third version known to have been printed. Only two complete copies of the first version are known, two perfect copies of the second, and one imperfect copy of the fourth...
...pneumonia developing in undilated areas of the lungs, scientists have learned. The lungs are not fully dilated by the first cry, or for many hours or even days after birth. The ancient practice of making a child cry several times a day is often ineffective in over coming atelectasis (imperfect expansion of the lungs at birth). The old barbarous and often ineffective methods of resuscitating the newborn by swinging, spanking and dipping in cold water are being replaced by inhalation of carbon dioxide. Many babies that cannot be resuscitated in any other way are thus saved. In maternity hospitals, where...
...acting, though more interesting, was less even than the play itself. The hesitation and indecisions which are the bane of amateur first-nights were sometimes in evidence. Timing was imperfect; cues were taken up slowly. The voice of the prompter was too often disconcertingly audible. In the main scenes, however, the cast almost always rose to the occasion, and acted with sincerity and poise. Miss Rosemary McHugh, as Mrs. Rooke-Walter, had most of the catch-lines. Better make-up would have enhanced an excellent attempt to enter into the spirit of the part. Katherine Roberts and Jean Goodale...
...gayest of all gay musical films has come again to the Fine Arts Theatre. This German operetta, with its inexpensive sets, its modest casting, its imperfect sound-recording, carries exuberance and spontaneity unknown to Hollywood. American films may be suaver, better sung, more pretentious, but charm evades them. For charm is a volatile essence to which the American temperament and the Hollywood system of incubation remain unkind...