Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...perfect secondary school is a public one which combines the ideals of a democratic society with a minimum of class distinction and a maximum of understanding between vocational groups, said President Conant, speaking before the American Association of School Administrators last night...
...fresh beef we brought out from Boston was picked by the first lieutenant at dinner today, and unless we shortly fall in with something of a prize, salt junk and biscuit must be our portion . . ." But then, "Old Ironsides" captured a British schooner and Chaplain Humphreys wrote: "A perfect slop ship and grocery store . . . bountiful cheer for Christmas...
Herman Wouk's bestselling novel, The Caine Mutiny, seemed at first to be perfect movie material. The story of Lieut. Commander Queeg, U.S.N., a weakling, petty-minded skipper, and his incompetent reign over the destroyer-minesweeper Caine had romance, action, villainy, and as miserable a crew of sailors as ever took over a ship (TIME, April 9). The U.S. Navy, without whose "cooperation" the picture cannot be successfully filmed, let loose a broadside at the whole movie project. To Producer Stanley (Champion) Kramer, Information Chief Rear Admiral Robert Hickey wrote: "I believe your production would plant in the minds...
Home Ties. In Mondovi, Italy, a court ruled that Andrea Vicino had a perfect right to keep his 55-year-old wife chained in her bedroom each evening, to keep her from going...
...Squadron Leader P.J.D. Wood of the R.A.F. touched off the controversy after the death of George VI. While intoning the commemorative service for the late sovereign, wrote Commander Wood to the Telegraph, he had snatched a quick look round at the faces of his airmen, and found them a perfect blank. Wood's conclusion: "Only a student of theology can understand the true meaning of many of our common prayers...