Word: perfect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nobody Is Perfect." In the Human Rights Commission last week, the Soviets' Alexei Pavlov launched one of his routine tirades against the U.S., which usually range far afield to cover the atom bomb, lynching, and warmongering. Up rose Eleanor Roosevelt to make a soft but effective answer: "I do not want to make more bad feelings here ... I want to try to have us, when we have to say that we do not agree, say it on the idea, and as courteously as we can. [We should] be perfectly honest and frank about our objectives, not attack ourselves more...
...audience missed the drilled precision of U.S. orchestras. Explained Director Barraud: "Our musicians are individualists. I don't mean that one violinist will be pushing up his bow while another is pulling his down, but there are differences in technique. We may not be so mechanically perfect-but we sound better." Few listeners were ready to go that far, but most agreed that the French orchestra had a cleanness and agility that many a U.S. orchestra lacks...
...broadened and increased social-security benefits, a strengthened Department of Labor, vigorous antitrust enforcement, action to "break the log jam in housing" and to halt "soaring prices." But he left labor still wondering what Taft-Hartley changes, if any, he would propose. Said Dewey: "The new law is not perfect. No law, or any other human handiwork is perfect. It can always be improved and wherever and whenever it needs change it will be changed...
...lengthy strategy meeting on game plans tonight, with another scheduled for tomorrow morning before luncheon. Art Valpey is waiting for a look at the weather before the commits his squad to a definite type of game, but if today's skies were any indication it will be a perfect day for pitch-outs and passes...
Crimson cross country forced were stunned yesterday by Rhode Island State, traditional powerhouse, when the first ten men to cross the finish mine were all Rams. The final score was a perfect one, Rhode Island State 15, Harvard 50. The race was run over a fast course at Franklin Park...