Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Aeroplane mail service on the transcontinental route of 2,680 miles had been maintained at a cost of $1,774,152. The mail aeroplanes were credited with a mileage of 1,809,028 and the carriage of 67,875,840 pieces of mail with a performance 96.72% perfect...
...meeting in Glasgow which Mr. Asquith's brother, H. J. Tennant, was addressing, interruptions became so frequent that the meeting developed into a general uproar. At that point Mrs. Asquith, who was among the audience, ascended the platform and announced: "This gentleman is my brother. You have a perfect right to come here, but no right to do what you are doing now. Those who don't want to listen...
There is a bit of strangeness in her rules. For years she was the perfect lover in mimic life, the Brunhilde, the Isolde, the Norma. But now she refuses to give lessons to young women who are in love. When a girl falls in love she is ousted from Lilli Lehmann's school...
...Melusine, the immortal elvish sorceress, found him daydreaming one day, took him into the forest of Acaire. There was a high place in the middle of that wood. There Florian beheld Melior, asleep beneath a coverlet of violet wool in her father's bemagicked palace, and, having seen the perfect beauty of Melior, all great satisfaction in mortal women was spoiled for him. When he grew up, it is true, he married four times, lived a life of extreme if elegant debauchery and committed crimes too numerous to note. But in spite of all that, he maintained the romantic faith...
...Campbell '12, the assistant Graduate Treasurer, supervise the coaching of the various baseball squads. Mr. Campbell will not take part in any of the active coaching, but will serve as a general superviser to promote cooperation among the coaches and make sure that all the coaches are working to perfect the same system...