Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many times as you've verbally ripped motion pictures and their stars apart, you certainly made up for it in "The Conquest of Smiling Jim." The story was of great interest to me, but I find it hard to believe that Bill Holden is really that perfect...
...sevens had been written backwards. On another, three plus six made eight and two plus three made six. On still another, truck had become truk and trains trims. What alarmed Mrs. Riordan was not the mistakes themselves: it was the fact that the teachers had marked all these papers "perfect...
Although seniority is an established and expedient way of appointing chairmen to Congressional committees, and while it works well in the majority of cases, the method is far from perfect. To preserve the custom as the best of feasible methods, Congress has shown in the past that it will, in unusual circumstances, make exceptions. When to make these exceptions, and how general they should be, then becomes a problem for which it is almost impossible to set criteria. But three exceptions, among the thousands of appointments, indicate that the Senate puts a higher premium on tradition than on criteria...
Winthrop won the House swimming title last night as it defeated Adams 35-13 and Eliot 38-10. It thereby finished the season with a perfect record of seven wins and no losses...
...second place Cal Place had lost several times at five last season and eighth man Larry Sears played two most of the time on the freshman squad in '55. Few could have predicted their perfect records. Charlie MacVeagh, noted for little more than his fight last year, was another example of developed potential. At three, he became a habitual winner and was the most effective Crimson player against Yale, taking his match...