Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three downs the scrubs were immovable, then Zarakov, aided by perfect interference, broke loose through left tackle and carried the pigskin 20 yards before being stopped. Another ten yards the University advanced, but were held for downs on the scrub 20-yard strip...
From McCook Field, Dayton, four weary air Magellans took off (in two planes), flew to Chicago under perfect conditions in the easiest hop of their trip around the earth (TIME, Mar. 24 et seq.). In a windless Windy City, cheering crowds, notables, bands, committees, orators were on hand to welcome them. Lieut. Lowell H. Smith, Flight Commander, issued a statement. Said he: "The next time we go around the world, it is going to be in a boat...
During the summer all the gasoline engines were overhauled and repainted, and they are now in perfect working condition; so much so, in fact, that the lowly "Pep" can now keep pace with the pride of the fleet, the "Patricia...
...diners. Consider the result if Mr. Meade were to procure the daily attendance, as he could for a trifling sum, of some local queen of the screen--always properly escorted--temporarily out of loose change. Consider the immediate change of atmosphere, the hushed and restrained conversation, the almost perfect technique of knife, fork, and spoon which would inevitably ensue. Consider the staggering spectacle of three hundred feeding students rising simultaneously to their feet upon the appearance of the lady of the day. Consider--but no. Why speculate on the impossible? Those grimaced Puritans who stare down from the walls would...
Came last week to the Pope a party of Italian undergraduates, youthfully maintaining that the Pope should become that most mythological of all creatures - a perfect neutral...