Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hours later, the clock was still running, still keeping perfect time, but something was wrong. Two other clock mechanics went up the tower to see why the great clock was no longer striking the hours. There, his long brown work smock caught in the relentless turning gears of the clock's winding mechanism, they found Thomas Manners, strangled to death by the clock he had tended so long and faithfully...
...orchestra began to play to a full house and an empty podium. The group was Arturo Toscanini's famed NBC Symphony, which NBC dropped last spring when the Maestro retired. Superbly trained, the men simply listened carefully to each other as they played, produced music that was perfect in balance, pure in articulation and movement. It sounded as if the Old Sorcerer were there on the podium. When the concert was done, the audience broke into an ovation that Toscanini himself had not often heard. Explained a bass player: "We learned from Toscanini to honor the will...
...mysterious "Brown Eminence" and his wife, is a fascinating document of the dreadful Nazi Utopia. They demonstrate with many expressions of endearment ("My dearest Mummy-Girl") that Martin Bormann (still missing after years of Allied search) was a human being-if a horribly peculiar one. The Bormanns raised a perfect Aryan family of nine, taking care that "none of our children gets depraved and diseased by the poison of Christianity." One day in January 1944, Bormann jubilantly informed his wife that he had succeeded in seducing the actress "M." "Lucky fellow!-now I . . . feel doubly and unbelievably happily married." Gerda...
...performing about equally, a superior Harvard line outplayed Princeton's here today to give the Crimson a 14-9 win--its first over the Tigers since 1946. Although it was as close and sloppy as the varsity's five previous games, the third victory was played in weather as perfect as the outcome. It was no day to be in Cambridge...
This is not, however, to discredit a Princeton team which held the Crimson even in first downs, gained only 41 fewer yards, and dropped two perfect passes in the Harvard end zone. But except for these lapses, the varsity defense was as good as it had to be--twice halting the Tigers inside...