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Word: perfectability (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...season. The fact that many of the students would take up golf for the first time would mean that the destruction done the links would be considerably more than in the case of an average club course. Naturally the golf team would have to play over a course in perfect condition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXPENSE MAKES GOLF COURSE PROHIBITIVE | 3/12/1924 | See Source »

...twelve reels of film, together with a modern projecting machine, with full operating instructions, will be sealed in a steel vault, specially constructed to preserve the film and machine in perfect working order, and with these will be deposited a copy of the working script of the picture and a few copies of the best books on motion picture production and practice. The reason for the projection machine is that in the 185 years to elapse between 1924 and 2109 tremendous changes will take place in motion picture production and exhibition and the donors of the Lincoln picture will take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Captive History | 3/10/1924 | See Source »

...often miserable for fear she is not making her point, is not getting, to the best of her ability, the effect she wants. She is constantly studying life. She has friends whose viewpoints greatly vary, yet I am sure that she is sympathetic with all of them, and with perfect sincerity. She is dramatic, yet simple, and she does not overdramatize events...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: She Is Never Sloppy | 3/10/1924 | See Source »

...elements which stand out most vividly in later perspective are the perfect photography, and the fine acting of Nell Hamilton. But the effect of the whole is what makes the picture the "super film" that...

Author: By F. I. C., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 3/8/1924 | See Source »

...ends his summary of Gandhi's influence with these prophetic words: "One thing is certain, either Gandhi's spirit will triumph, or it will manifest itself again as were manifested, centuries before, the Messiah and Buddha; till there finally in manifested, in a mortal half-god, the perfect incarnation of principle of life which will lead a new humanity on to a new path...

Author: By F. I. C., | Title: THE MESSIAH OF INDIA: A BIOGRAPHY | 3/7/1924 | See Source »

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