Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...m.p.h.), which is about the muzzle velocity of a high-power rifle bullet. The Air Force scientists expect much higher speeds. It is fortunate, they say, that the Tularosa Basin is not subject to earthquakes. Even a delicate motion of the earth might throw the track out of perfect alignment and wreck the next missile to be used...
...Sprinting in nearly perfect step, Australia's 19-year-old Herb Elliott and Mervyn Lincoln whipped across the finish line of a mile race in Perth, Australia in the identical time of 3:59.6. The winner by microseconds: Elliott, running his third successive mile in under 4 min. In Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, Dublin's Ron Delany loafed through the second and third quarters but finished flat out to win in the slowpoke time of 4:10 over Hungary's Istvan Rozsavolgyi, who was running his first race...
...passes from Cleary and Guttu. The Eagle forwards then let up on their back-checking and just tried to contain the varsity at the B.C. blue line. Bill Collins scored at 4:39 when he managed to get clear in front of the cage and scored on a perfect pass from Bud Higgenbottom...
Perhaps the most artistically perfect part of the production is the superb guitar-playing of Gabor Szabo. Ester Small's costumes are appropriate and imaginative...
...consumption at 23, and young Dumas never forgot her glamorous, terrible life. He became "The Man in Flight from Temptation," began to write plays in which seducers were condemned with such cold precision that Parisians were horrified. Complained Gustave Flaubert: "Preventing petticoats from being lifted has become a perfect mania with...