Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Their intention is by no means chimerical. Russia already has a perfect monopoly of wheat sales, and in two years will be ready to export 100,000,000 bushels yearly, said its representative, Saul G. Bron...
...occasion of Frederic Chopin's first concert. Three years later in Paris, a figure of fashion with white gloves to emphasize his pointed hands, he rode through the Bois de Boulogne in a cabriolet. To late suppers in his rooms, each lady would bring a flower, at the most perfect of which, Chopin, frozen into a temperamental abstraction, would sit for a long time staring...
...CRIMSON is in perfect agreement with the proposals in these first six resolutions. It advocates less restrictive dogma on the part of the club open house system, and believes that the Committee has undertaken the right methods of correcting the situation which now prevails and which is unpopular with many club members who feel bound by law in such a manner that they have no privilege of inviting friends outside their club in for meals. This is, however, a matter entirely for each club--as the Committee has pointed out--and the sole merit, as far as the university...
...thwart these air pioneers. Lieutenant Wooster turned the beak of the American Legion, slightly, ever so slightly. With that turn, the plane lost flying speed. A landing was now imperative. Marshes, mud flats, duck ponds yawned below. Upon a small patch of green, Lieutenant Wooster made a perfect landing-an almost unheard-of feat with a plane loaded so heavily. The yellow giant skidded across the green marsh into the muddy waters of a shallow duck pond, wherein the giant's beak stuck. Its tail completed a semicircle. In its cockpit lay Lieutenant Wooster with his neck broken, Commander...
...Japan the new Premier enjoys the reputation of a valiant, discriminating drinker, and a gentleman of perfect decorum in his frequent visits to geisha-houses. On one such occasion he became aware during the night that he had carelessly set the establishment on fire. No poltroon, he sobered instantly, ordered the geisha girls out into the street, organized the men-servants to carry out furniture and extinguish the fire, paid openhandedly for the damage he had wrought...