Word: imperfectly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...which he is navigating, the better equipped he is as a fighter, as a photographer, or on reconnaissance work. At critical times, meteorological knowledge has time and again proved its practical value to those who navigate the air. It is true enough that meteorologists still have but a very imperfect idea of much that concerns the upper air currents, but what they do know they are now putting at the service of the men who fly. And the men who fly will, in their turn, enrich and advance meteorological science by means of the many important facts which their...
...High Church curate, is appropriately preposterous but no more preposterous than people like that are in reality. We should add that Mr. Shaw's sentimental hatred of sentimentality is occasionally a little boring. Altogether it is as fine a production as we are likely to see in this imperfect age. CUTHBERT WRIGHT...
...Forsaken" is pretty, but not quite so pretty as it should be, Mr. Simpson's Imitation of the Rubaiyat" is creditable but not valuable. Mr. Allinson contributes two poems, "Die Gotterdammerrung" and a sonnet. The first is chiefly in unrhymed pentameters, with nine-syllabled verses interspersed. Its workmanship is imperfect, and its lines tend to monotony; yet it is impressive in its dignity. His sonnet "Umbra Naturae" again shows either carelessness or radical doctrine as to versification: it begins with a nine-syllables verse (unless we give two syllables to "here"), and ends with what looks like a rough Alexandrine...
Since this last overhauling, nothing more has happened in the way of shifting on the first crew. The crew has yet to show its true calibre, for imperfect shell equipment has been one of the main causes for the poor preliminary record of this year. A new and heavier Davy shell was brought into use about the first of June, and this should overcome any such handicap. The crew, as has been said, is a heavy one with the emphasis in development placed on staying power. The defeats by Pennsylvania and Cornell have not shaken the confidence of the coaches...
...Arthur Woods '92, police commissioner of New York City spoke interestingly in the Union last night on the problems that confront a policeman in New York and of the imperfect conditions under which a body of 11,000 men has to control a population of five and a half millions, two and a half millions of which are foreigners. He spoke of the various methods of policeing the city and told of his experiences as deputy commissioner six years ago. "One of the most striking things about New York crime," said Mr. Woods, "is the fact that a large proportion...