Word: imperfections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...winners of the health contest of the 4-H Clubs. Champion Heikes scored 99.9%, only her teeth counting against her. Pink-cheeked Miss Heikes eats three big meals a day, drinks water and milk, wears broad-toed, low-heeled shoes. Champion Saunders, who scored 99.1%, not only had imperfect teeth but a pimple. He shuns tobacco and stimulants, eats all he wants...
...last week was Dr. Gault's Teletactor. An imperfect one was in use for several years at a school for the blind in Chicago. But three weeks ago Dr. Gault completed his new Teletactor, an entirely rebuilt instrument which has greater power, greater sensitivity...
Vines's opponent in the final was Lott. The latter had beaten round-faced Doeg, the defending champion, who got as far as the semi-final on his courage rather than on his imperfect, left-handed shots. Lott, in the first ten for the last five years, had never reached the final before. In his match with Vines, who was a flash-in-the-pan a year ago but who had won three out of this year's four important invitation tournaments, Lott controlled his temper and his shots in the first set, which he won, after two narrow escapes...
...first work. He ''discovered" Zane Grey, Louis Joseph Vance, Charles E. Van Loan. Of his output he said: "Much of it is not literature. Little of it is great literature. It comes so straight and fresh from the loom of life that it may well be imperfect in spots and lacking that finish which a more meticulous taste might provide...
...portentous work, heralded and omened by illegitimate night lights and uncouth noises from Mt. Auburn Street, and by righteous uneasiness among Harvard professors, presents contemporary and past Harvard men with an opportunity to enjoy themselves. For the authors have held the mirror up to nature (albeit a slightly imperfect mirror) and the defects of Cambridge scholars--dignity, austerity, knowledge, etc.--come through the refining process of distortion until they are seen in their true light. Fifty pages of wit and caricature at three cents per page...