Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Test Pilot Skeets Coleman started the Allison turboprop engine (5,500 h.p.), and the two counterrotating propellers roared like an indoor tornado. Climbing at about 2.5 ft. per second (a slow walk), the plane rose 60 ft. under perfect control. The restraining cables, hanging slack, were not necessary; Pilot Coleman rose and descended three times, hanging on his prop for 15 minutes and landing on the exact spot from which he took...
Apachefied Dickens. Born in 1894, Cèline as an adult became a doctor in the Paris slums, a perfect apprenticeship for a writer who saw everything in terms of filth, corruption and decay. Two novels, boiling with ferocious vitality and humor, Death on the Installment Plan (TIME, Aug. 29, 1938) and Journey to the End of the Night (TIME, April 30, 1934), established Cèline's literary reputation; but World War II, in which he became a vigorous Nazi collaborator, made him a social pariah, who had to run for his life after the Liberation...
Wine production, if nothing else, was better than ever last year. In France and Spain, growing conditions were perfect, the grapes were larger, and the boys who mash the grapes had bigger feet. But the wine consumers have not risen to meet this new challenge, which, according, to U.N. statistics, involves a mere 636 million gallons of surplus wine. Ready for sale, this surplus wine would fill just slightly more than two-and-a-half billion bottles. This trifling amount of wine would be easy work for any but the present group of apathetic wine drinkers...
...MacArthur had a perfect opportunity to come in 1949," the Corporation member stated. "He was here in this country. He had no legitimate excuse, so we withdrew the offer...
...Hellenic Conference of the sororities, however, is working to establish a house for them on campus so that there can be more fraternity-sorority life. The student government is bringing the two parts of the school together, and there is perfect cooperation in all activities. The device of co-chair-5Thursday afternoon in the Gifford Hall library. The Student Union, the girls' dormitories, and the rest of the campus are quiet...