Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expressed so well by President Lowell. Article X, the apparent centre of the political storm now raging, does not present a clear-cut issue of principle any more than do the reservations offered by the Republican senators. To even the most violent of partisans the treaty cannot appear so perfect that a reservation on Article X. will ruin it; or so bad that the present reservations of Senator Lodge are all that can save it. Concessions--mutual concessions by the President and the majority in the Senate--are the only means by which the really vital thing can be accomplished...
...through the long laps around the track when his legs stiffen up so that it seems as if something would crack and his back aches. But a fighting spirit will carry him through to the thrills of competition and victory which come only to a man in perfect training...