Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...think the lyrics of Ira Gershwin and Lorenz Hart will live on long after Dr. Hayakawa has taken his "research" to a place where he will find his "perfect" lyrics. The truest meaning of his IFD is more probably Insane, Frantic and Deaf...
...arranging parties for her little charges, leading them through song and play until they are ready for books. Dedicated to the proposition that adjustment is as important as subject matter and that a child should not be forced to study until he is ready, she was chosen as a perfect representative of the "primary teacher who first unlocks for our youngest citizens the treasure chest of books and pictures and ideas...
...hard dirt. Each oval habitation, some 20 feet long, was connected with others by long tunnels. Most extraordinary thing about the Horite dwellings was that they were completely furnished. The entrances were blocked up with stones (the ancient equivalent of locking the door), but everything was in as perfect order as if the inhabitants had just stepped out after tidying up after dinner. Perrot does not know why they left or why they never came back. For all he knows, they may have been smitten on the way home by King Chedorlaomer...
...rate, their tunnel doorways drifted over with sand-leaving after perhaps 5,000 years an almost perfect subject for archaeological study. Beside the ash-filled fireplaces stood bowls and cups. Tools were neatly stacked. Last offerings to the gods were laid out on the floors, and storage bins held enough grain to feed the inhabitants who never came home...
Threatened with legal action and financial ruin because of the missing morphine, the apothecary begs the ballerina to give it back. She refuses. A little later she had a heart attack, and the apothecary's wife, filling out a prescription of strychnine for the patient, has the perfect opportunity to do her in. While light and darkness moil and wrangle, the wife makes her inner decision...