Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cherished Kobu is revealed, unusual in form, beautiful in grain, often rare in color, and no two ever alike." The Kobu artist then takes the root and begins a long and traditional pattern of hand rubbing and waxing (often with rare and expensive waxes) to bring it to a perfect finish. The preparation and mounting of a difficult kobu may take from six months to a year...
Thayer North, with a perfect 9-0 record, seeks its tenth straight against Hollis (8-1) in the championship game of the first half of the freshman intramural basketball program. The game starts at 7:30 p.m. at the I.A.B...
...motion-the passing from power to act-implies an unmoved Mover; 2) similarly, there must be an uncaused First Cause that possesses in itself the reason for its existence; 3) the existence of beings whose nonexistence is possible implies the existence of a necessary Being; 4) the scale of perfections evident in the universe implies the existence of an absolute standard, a perfect Being...
While washing his hands and singing a gay Neapolitan air, he stopped and remarked casually: "My father cut his throat," then went back to singing. Byron was word-perfect in his monster role before he was out of his teens. Henceforth, the clubfoot and the sensitive heart hid themselves in the disguise of a cold, cloven-hoofed devil. On his brow, at a moment's notice, would appear "that singular scowl" which caused one acquaintance to exclaim that he "had never seen a man with such a Cain-like mark on the forehead." A Pair of Stays. A Miss...
...well above the range of Britain's heaviest ack-ack guns. MacMillan hopes to replace the gun batteries with radar-directed rockets, able to find and destroy enemy bombers traveling at 1,000 m.p.h. at heights up to 60,000 ft. But such rockets might take years to perfect and produce. ¶ The Royal Navy, most of whose ships are out of date, will concentrate still more heavily on 1) frigates, 2) carriers, 3) submarines. Three Tiger-class cruisers now under construction will be the last gun-cruisers built for the Royal Navy: henceforth, Britain expects...