Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...perfect birthday party except that there was no cake with 2,678 candles...
Rain, home runs, errors, and freak baseball were all mixed up together in the game on Saturday which the Crimson baseball team took from Amherst, 9 to 1. A drizzling downfall during the first few innings gave way to perfect baseball weather, and the slugfest which the game had promised to become was at the same time switched to a pitchers' duel of sorts...
...Captain Woodruff, who was the visitors' star at bat and in the field, and Hammond, after he had drawn a pass, staged a double steal with Ellison that netted another run. The next inning saw five tallies swell the Crimson budget. A base on balls, an error and a perfect bunt by Toulmin loaded the bases with none out. Zarakov connected with one of Presbrey's offerings and while the ball was being recovered in deep center field, four runs came across. One of these was a run for only a few minutes, for the umpire found that Hoffman...
...Italy, a perfect cavern-chapel to Mithras, Persian god of light, was found in Santa Maria di Capua. Some 100 other Mithraic shrines had been known in Italy, but none so complete as this. Frescos presented Mithras as a strong youth, in brilliant red tunic with green cuffs and gold fringe, sacrificing a white bull with red nostrils beneath a blue, star-studded...
...threatening to head down into the water while the crew worked in life belts. Even when the return journey was possible, she sailed painfully at not more than ten miles an hour over the rough sea. When the airship got home, looking like an uncomfortable inflated toy pig, a perfect landing and housing were made. The wild journey was another evidence of the wonderful airworthy qualities of these apparently fragile giants...