Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...himself jailed for vagrancy, worked in lettuce fields, and even acted in Broadway productions of Walter Hampden (Cyrano) and Sothern and Marlowe's Shakespeare troupe. At times, his ten dollars dwindled low, but at other times he made money-lots of money-writing for cheap magazines. "I had a perfect formula that worked while I stuck with it," he gleefully relates. "I used to go to the New York Library and read the cheap stories of 1900. Then I would rewrite them-adding more sex and putting automobiles in place of carriages. But I got bored with such stuff...
...short Bach sonata was tossed off at the beginning of the program almost in the spirit of a game, and its success was total. I cannot imagine a more perfect agreement on the spirit of a work and the gestures for its expression than the Kohns' attained in this piece...
Conditions for the experiment are ideal at present, Hill observed, because the nation's public school teaching staffs are undermanned. "This is a perfect time to try this idea out. Secondary schools will have no difficulty in absorbing the influx," he said...
Today, the difference still stands in all the Ivy institutions except Columbia and Princeton. In 1934 the Lions formally equalized letter awards in all sports. Today Columbia Athletic Director Ralph Furry is delighted with the system. "It's just perfect for us," he said...
...Perfect Safety." The CAB took out after North American almost as soon as it started. But by one legal dodge after another, the line has managed to keep going. And it has turned into a whopping success. It started the first $99 fare coast to coast, expanded its air-coach business so fast that it forced the scheduled lines to start air-coach flights (today 34% of all airline travel is by air coach). North American made enough money to buy two Douglas DC-6Bs for nonstop transcontinental flights, has three more on order, and has been able to chop...