Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These emotional swings in business sentiment must be rather carefully discounted by the conservative student of affairs. In business, as elsewhere, there is no perfect Heaven nor any utter Hell. The worst situation has some promise in it, while there is always something seriously the matter with every "period of prosperity," even from the beginning. The developments of the past two months are quite generally encouraging, yet common sense is still needed to counterbalance the fervid rhetoric of the revivalist school of business prophets...
Howell of Nebraska who, it was thought, might turn to the Progres- sives, came out for Coolidge. Others, such as .Senators Norris and Brookhart, remained on the fence. This will probably be the course of other insurgents. Meanwhile, in Chicago, Everett Sanders industriously labored to perfect a speaking program for the Republican candidates, while from politicians all over the country came word: "Send us Coolidge," "Send us Dawes," "Send us Coolidge and Dawes." Mr. Dawes decided to open his campaign with a speech at Lincoln, Neb., home of Governor Bryan, on Aug. 29. Maine will hold an election on Sept...
...then went to his father's country home at Gloucester, Mass., set up his experimental laboratory on a high bluff. Soon he had developed a means for radio control of a boat at sea. The perfection of this invention covered a period of years, but is now practically perfect. He applied the same principle to a torpedo and developed one that could be steered at will at a speed of 50 mi. an hour on the surface, or 27 mi. submerged. It was in this connection that he developed a type of non-interferable radio transmission. Several foreign Governments...
Wandering into the main dining room of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel of an evening you may find him. There he is−tall, sober, the perfect bachelor, who has attained years of discretion. Like a gracious prince−for he is a man of distinction−he frequents this semi-public haunt, where ever and again appear the potentates with whom he may speak on terms of equality...
...Ohio State University the young Benjamin Lamme studied electricity but slightly. He was a prodigy in mathematics - which explains his later power to perfect the most intricate inventions in his mind, without pencil or paper. Differential calculus and high-range multiplication were his diversions. Upon graduation, in 1888, he entered the employ of the Westinghouse Co. He began inventing then, and stopped only at his death, after having given the world 150 useful devices...