Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good", however, Olivar did not mean perfect; he still remains without the services of two key linemen out with bad knees, while the play of the second string quarterback is doubtful. Both Pete Fritzsche and Tom Jones, second team left guard and right tackle, respectively, will "definitely not see action." Quarter- back Dick Winterbauer's condition will not be known until Thursday, Olivar said...
...seasons he won more than 30. Only the late great Walter Johnson, who fanned 3,497 batters in his lifetime, broke Cy's strike-out mark of 2,836. In 1904, pitching for Boston against Philadelphia, Cy became the third pitcher in major-league history to pitch a perfect game...
Elliot Finkelstein had to take several dives in the mud to extend his string of perfect goal-tending to 205 minutes (including parts of the Lowell and Williams games). Finkelstein was extremely cool under pressure, and has obviously profited greatly by the experience he has had this season. His improvement has been so marked that Coach Bruce Munro may have difficulty in choosing between him and Lindsay Fischer for the Yale game, even if Fischer...
...brilliant game, but now the afternoon's battering began to tell on the Iowa defense. Two series of Maddock passes netted touchdowns and Halfback Tony Branoff ran 30 yards for a third. In nine minutes, Michigan scored 20 points, won the game 33-21, and preserved its perfect record (6-0) in the 1955 football season...
When the delegates to the San Francisco Conference of 1945 finished writing the Charter of the United Nations, they knew that it was far from perfect. Big Power unanimity was already deteriorating, and the Cold War itself was not far off. Now, ten years later, as the question of Charter review comes before the General Assembly, it is clear that the U.N. has done much quiet growing within its imperfect framework...