Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Responsory(1952) by Rev. Russell Woolen ranked highest among the contemporary works. Taken from the Matins of Holy Thursday, it is unmistakably oriented toward the solemnity of Catholic worship. It is rather his modernistic freedom of line and rhythm that can suggest, without limitation, a style that was already perfect for hundred years...
...factory automation is beginning to open up for electronics. While U.S. industry has always had automatic machines, a whole new family of "feedback" controls is growing up which not only run the machines, but also correct their mistakes, order the machines to rework defective parts until they are perfect. Such feedback controls are the forerunner of real automation. Linked together, they will make automated production lines. A form of the new automation is already at work making telephone relays for Western Electric, acetylene gas and carbide for the National Carbide division of Air Reduction Co., aircraft engines at Curtiss-Wright...
...mastered his role," says Dr. Miller, "he mastered himself and we could reach him better with psychotherapy." He is now working to support his family, and living at home. Another patient, who at first could not remember lines for more than a few minutes, eventually memorized his part letter-perfect, and his memory for other matters improved. A third, who insisted he could not see his script or even a cue card, was won around to the point where first he read fluently, then acted his part freely...
Washington's Advertising Club, with eager-beaver young executives chainsmoking and fidgeting in their seats, provided a perfect audience last week for Industrial Medicine-Man Robert Collier Page (TIME. May 24). Warned Page: "Chances of getting ahead in the next decade . . . are going to be many times greater than anyone has ever known . . . Opportunity for every able man and woman, from office boy to vice president, will be spelled out in letters as big as barn doors . . . There is a terrible danger hidden in [this]: unless you are up to the challenge mentally and physically, your next promotion could...
Bill of Particulars. In Chicago, suing for breach of contract, a food distributor charged that the Flamm Pickle and Packing Co. shipped pickles that blew up jars in warehouse refrigerators, on retail shelves and purchasing agents' desks, and moreover, were "less than perfect in taste, smell and coloring...