Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Author. Frank Swinnerton was born in London in 1884. He is the author of The Happy Family, On the Staircase, The Chaste Wife, Shops and Houses, Nocturne, September, Coquette. According to Arnold Bennett and H. G. Wells, Nocturne is "the perfect novel...
...curious to note how much Mr. Meiklejohn is able to convey by his wording. His inaugural address is a rhetorical model, a perfect illustration of the use of topic sentence and so forth; and to a certain extent an illustration of how stupid the sue of mechanical rules alone can be. The baccalaureate sermon, on the other hand, is replete with dignity and yet grace; while the prophecy of the next hundred years is filled with almost poetic fire. Almost all through the book, except in the inaugural address, there is a lilt to the words that is akin...
...transmitting photographs by wire (TIME, April 7). Last week the Radio Corporation of America sent a photograph by wireless from New York to Warsaw, Poland, and back again-9,000 miles. It was a picture of Major General James G. Harbord, President of the Corporation, and the reproduction was perfect. The picture was not reproduced in Warsaw because the requisite machinery is not yet installed there. The inventor is E. F. W. Alexanderson, radio innovator. Each variation of light and shade in a photograph is translated into punctures of ticker tape, which, when drawn through a transmitter, causes the waves...
...Molnar's credit column cannot justly be starred with all the eulogy. The Charles Frohman Co. have created a perfect medium for the transference of his inventions. Translation, setting, costumes, direction are virtually without a flaw. Yet all of these would be valueless without the players...
...Freshman team performed 100 percent perfect as far as the score was concerned, for it carried away the first five places and with them the meet 15 to 54. Swede, the Crimson captain, led the pack at the finish by 45 seconds in 23m. 25s., while all four of his team-mates who placed arrived on the scene within a minute of his appearance at the last red flag...