Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...obvious, granting the Corporation's assumption that a "theatre and a permanent school for playwrights would not be wise" ultimately, that the administration acted quite reasonably. It stood opposed on theory to the plans which Professor Baker was anxious to perfect, and therefore it had no valid reason for making a special effort to finance such a development. Holding this opinion, the Corporation was perfectly justified in devoting its energies to the aid of those departments which in its belief not only needed assistance badly but were of major importance to the growth of the University...
...photographs are now with Dr. J. A. Miller, head of the Sproul Observatory at Swarthmore, where they will be exhibited at an important Astronomical conference on February 28. Powell said that his two small photographs of the corona were almost perfect and brought out the original colors of the corona flames very clearly. He added, "The eclipse was altogether unfavorable for colored photography work, since there was less color than is usually apparent. Nevertheless, the pictures bring out the different shades of red, green, and yellow quite vividly...
...know what is the correct procedure when a movie star is about to be pictorially married? Do you know what fashion dictates to be worn for an elopement with the other man? Can you descend from a burning building in perfect taste...
...know what is the correct procedure when a professor fails to appear at eight minutes past the hour? Do you know what fashion dictates to be worn at parties in Big Tree? Can you rise and depart in the middle of a lecture which bores you with perfect, equanimity...
...which has been quite unnoticed can spring into popularity. The New York World has just presented Mr. Brady with some front page advertising for his latest production, "A Good Bad Woman," and Mr. Brady has played up to the lead of the World very nicely. He declared himself in perfect concurrence with its desire for clean plays, and offered to remove his production from the boards--as soon as six or seven other managers whose plays he declared were just as had did likewise. To cap the climax Miss MacKellar's pathetic refusal to endanger her reputation by playing...