Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...taken for what is technically known to the habitues of the race track as a ride last week. My record as a seer, hitherto 100 per cent perfect, was dealt a crushing blow 'When the last tick of the telegraph told me that Pennsylvania had beaten Yale, I, though I am a real man's man, sat down and wept like a child. For I, the ne plus ultra forecaster (pretty erudite, that) had missed. I had broken faith with my public. Such are life's tragedies...
Coach Cowles when asked whether he thought that such pictures were of value, told the CRIMSON reporter: "I advise all tennis enthusiasts to be present. The pictures have a distinct educative value, and are interesting as they allow the spectator to see whether the champions whose play seems so perfect during match play, have any defects when subjected to the test of slow-motion pictures...
...country has a larger army and a more powerful navy, costing annually almost twice as much as it ever before had in time of peace. I am a thorough believer in a policy of adequate military preparation. We are constantly working to perfect our defenses in every branch, land forces, air forces, surface and submarine forces. That work will continue...
...have found his peace. The heart beneath the surface of some peon bodice may beat for the professor's learning. Some ruffian of the plains may seek wisdom at his fount. How fortunate he is to be removed from the mundane midst of American mediocrity. Now he can enjoy perfect English among virile types in a violent land. Then, when another agrarian movement robs Mexico of a delight in Shelley, and the bullets of the next candidate for the presidency penetrate the calm of Dr. Finlev's southern sanctum, he may prefer the powder of the northern classroom...
Just such a petal is this curiously perfect little conceit, drifting out of the forest of new books in delicate descent. The hummingbird pen that despatched it is that of a lady who steeps herself in the precious odors, flavors, and disillusions which modern aesthetes ascribe to 18th century Italy. The episodes related are some that were consequent upon the fact that Cardinal Peter Innocent, not having nephews like the other cardinals and the chaste Pope, happened in Venice upon a glassblower and a chevalier who, for sufficient sequins, fashioned for him a nephew of finespun glass. This manikin, though...