Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Philippine Islands are not yet ready for independence, in spite of the widespread desire for it among the natives," said Bishop Charles Henry Brent, former bishop of the Islands. "The principal cause for this condition, however, is not racial, but economic, for the whites and the natives live in perfect harmony. At present the entire revenue of the Islands is devoted to constructive work. If, however, they received independence, the cost of an army and navy would have to be supported by the natives. This very heavy expense is at present met by the United States government...
Ruth says a fig for virtue! and Balaams to Queen Gertrude. Laud Joyce-Burge ate at Mendel's. Law the food they Pilon Rude. Happiness implies the perfect functioning of the soul, the Hundred Years' Decline and Fall of Burbank Gibbon's Holy Roman Empire, not an Empire, Holy nor yet Roman. Diminishing returns, the Tennyson, all Scop DeFoeman. Electra Dryden is the very Kittredge form of oathing upon the Tennis Court. The Double Standard Brann of Clothing is Washington down in the Poe, by Nausicaa. The Maid whose Tragedy emptor caveat a Single Tax on Trade. Plato McMasters Menckenese...
From all appearances Ireland is in the unfortunate position of not knowing what she wants and being unhappy until she gets it. The last two days have seen one of the stormiest sessions of the Dail Eireann so far--a perfect maze of charges and counter charges from Griffith and De Valera intermixed with epithets of "liar" and "gunman", until both sides finally agreed to publish the documents of the London conference,--"before the elections so that no one is fooled" as De Valera expressed...
...University rifle team brought its season to a close last Friday evening, when it lost to Yale in the annual telegraphic match, by the score of 497 to 493. Three Yale men had perfect scores of 100, but none of the Crimson marksmen were able to accomplish this...
Crew A, stroked by Walter Amory '24, held the lead after the start and had a comfortable margin of three lengths at the finish line. Although Crew B, getting away to a perfect start, shot ahead for a few strokes at the beginning, the advantage was of short duration and the first University boat steadily increased its lead to the end. The time was rather slow, but this may be attributed to the rough surface of the basin, a sharp cross wind serving to make the water choppy to such an extent that anything like smooth rowing was impossible...