Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...latest Ivy League standings show Princeton and Yale tied for first place with perfect 3-0 records. The two teams are followed by the Dartmouth eleven, which has won one of its two League games...
Every human being is to some extent a security risk. No one is perfect; no one is immune to being deceived or blackmailed or tortured into giving information; no one is certain never to commit a slightly careless act in handling secret material. At the same time there are urgent jobs to be done. If we trust no one with secrets, then there will be no secrets-for secrets are invented in the brains of fallible human beings. If we disqualify every competent but slightly "imperfect" scientist from working for the government, then we shall surely fail to survive...
...stronger in tackling, blocking and ball handling. With a bewildering mixture of single-wing and T formations, the Spartans drove into Irish territory right after the kickoff, lost the ball on a fumble, then mounted another offensive that carried to the Notre Dame goal line. Notre Dame's perfect record ended just as the second quarter began, when Halfback Clarence Peaks went over for the first M.S.U. touchdown...
...Manhattan's Mt. Sinai Hospital last week, plastic surgeons removed the dressings from the face of a 23-year-old Japanese girl named Shigeko Niimoto and noted with satisfaction that her extensive skin graft had been an almost perfect take. The contours of the girl's face were almost normal again...
Armed with her half-dozen best numbers, Joyce Grenfell would be the perfect star of the usual intimate revue. In the present unusual intimate one, she is still worth seeing, but considerably handicapped. She makes 13 appearances; the only other performers-a dance trio-appear even oftener. Onstage so often, Actress Grenfell is forced back upon the second best and even the secondhand-such things as Songs My Mother Taught Me (mother was one of Virginia's famous Langhorne sisters*). The dances only now and then rise above the agreeable, and the trio would benefit themselves and the show...