Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Franklin Bunn '57 and Boyd N. Everett Jr. '56 have won the national Inter-collegiate Bridge Tournament with a perfect score--an unusual showing for even the best of tournament champions. They finished with a score of nine pars out of nine possible...
Practicing the virtues of a true Christian, together with the duties of a perfect gentleman and patriot, President Eisenhower's tested leadership inspires confidence and trust. All those who toil for a peaceful world will wish him Godspeed in a second term of office...
...finishing to exact specifications. To end one time-wasting source of human error, North American Aviation installed an automated "skin mill" to mill 1½-in. aluminum slabs into F-100 wing panels with one one-thousandth-in. tolerances, found that the robot millers could make a pair of perfect wings in 2½ hours v. 20 hours for a skilled machinist with a possibility of error. North American's new skin mill has worked out so well that the Air Force has ordered 48 more for U.S. aircraft plants, will install some automated giants that can mill wing...
...unrelaxed tension in Author Powers' stories is the pull of the real against the ideal. In an earlier book, Prince of Darkness, he found a salient image for that tension in a priest eating his breakfast: "He jabbed at the grapefruit before him, his second, demolishing its perfect rose window." Essentially, this is the perennial fall of man before the images of truth, beauty and faith to which he aspires...
...march towards bigger and better scholarship programs. Congressmen are urging their fellows to establish a half-billion dollar fund for needy geniuses, corporations are exhorting their stockholders to approve national talent searches, and educators are reminding their former pupils that the alma mater is not yet perfect. In the midst of this nascent crusade, Harvard is fortunately able to assume a somewhat holier-than-thou attitude...