Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have witnessed also that wherever I went in the southern islands, there is almost pathetic reliance on and devotion to the, governor general by the leading Moro chiefs. Throughout the rest of the islands there has been perfect respect...
...Nazim Pasha's executioner, a man of skill, drew the noose tight under one ear. Ensued "a perfect hanging." The head, jerked to one side by the knot, snapped the neck vertebra, bringing instant death. Less fortunate was Deputy Hilmi Bey. His hangman, a clumsy lout, was forced to hang him twice...
...your communication . . . you have rightfully exercised your right of petition by applying to one of those able to initiate laws, but I must sincerely tell you that I am the least fitted person to comply with the said petition ... as the constitutional articles you protest against are in perfect accord with my philosophical and political conviction...
Deputies Rampant. Though the police of Mexico City exercised notable vigilance last week and generally preserved perfect order, a revolver battle was fought between contentious Mexican Deputies last week before the Hotel Iturbide, not ten paces from a well-patronized U. S.-owned tearoom...
...other qualities, leaving it up to the pilots to gain further points by good speed and navigation in getting from point to point. Not a great deal of figuring was needed to award first prize to Pilot Walter Beach and his Wright-motored Travel Air No. 2. With perfect equipment, and higher speed than most, he had been able to leave the stopping places last and arrive at destinations irst; also, he was aided by an able navigator, Brice Goldsborough of the Pioneer Instrument Co. Notable was the failure of the trimotored Ford all-metal entries to finish. Flying...