Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have been inspired by the preposition "On"-On the Green, On the Mall, On the Go. The American Indians, on the other hand, are responsible for such pieces as Cherokee, Sunapee, Sagamore, Eagle Eyes. Concerts given by his band in Manhattan parks and stadia have been remarkable for the perfect orderliness of the audiences. His organization has been called, "A Symphony Orchestra in Brass", "The Greatest Band in the World...
Author Beresford gave up being an architect 20 years ago, to write psychological novels. His characters are structurally correct, the perspective of their situations perfect to a fault. Unfortunately, they remain largely in the blue-print stage, explicit social diagrams which their creator lacks either the wit or power to bring to life...
...policy of withholding depressing statistics and publishing favorable ones would not be followed in a perfect world. But the copper trade has at least been perfectly frank about the matter- more so than certain other industries which have practised the same policy. Moreover, blank silence is probably preferable to the issuance of partial, inaccurate or careless statistics...
Tired pianists who have practiced all day until their fingers are fagots of bruised nerves and the sound of their instrument echoes as hollowly to their ears as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal, dream, when asleep, of the perfect piano. They seat themselves before a suave and sable instrument that is pliant to their will as none that mortal hands have ever fingered; it speaks for them with a mighty organ voice; notes, at the command of their subconscious will, sing with the pomp of trumpets or the tenderness of fiddles, yet it is no pipe organ that they...
...correct an inaccuracy in your otherwise letter-perfect issue...