Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...telegrams and letters which were stated rather than proved to have passed between the Soviet Trade Delegation and the Soviet Government. Because Mr. Baldwin is a good, sturdy Britisher, his statements carried weight, and were very generally accepted by the British public as proof that Great Britain had a perfect, technical right to cancel her Trade Agreement and diplomatic relations with Soviet Russia last week on the ground that the Russians had consistently misused the privileges accorded them...
...foregoing considerations in Beethoven's works is found a perfect balance between content and mode of expression, between spirit and body; and the message always comes from a human being capable of every emotion and aspiration...
...classmates call him "Butch." He owns a "secondhand navy pea-jacket, evidently purchased with due regard for Coolidge economy." He has a "perfect schoolgirl complexion," plus an "air of perfect boredom." He keeps a scrapbook of newspaper clippings in which his name is mentioned. He receives, from schoolgirls throughout the U. S., admiring letters. So alleged the Amherst Junior Year Book of John Coolidge. The President's son, Amherst College Junior, is himself a member of the Junior Year Book editorial board...
...ready to land gracefully. An inexperienced pilot often fails to detect a wind that is causing his plane to drift sideways. This may account for a wrecked landing-gear, a crumpled wing. This is why planes, like pitching ducks, land directly into the wind whenever possible. A perfect landing is when the two wheels and the tail-skid touch the ground in unison...
When students become uncontrollable the police have a perfect right to interfere but when the arm of the law strikes out unknowingly and unjustly the act assumes a sour aspect and deserves authoritative attention and immediate investigation. No police force can expect the cooperation of students when such uncalled for action is taken and we hope that episodes of this kind will not be repeated if mutual understanding between the undergraduates and the law is to prosper. Cornell Daily...