Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...provided a pleasant evening of folk songs for one hundred satisfied listeners last night in the Adams lower common room. Billy Chapple's ballads were always pleasant, frequently marvelous. Mike Kenin was at his best with French songs and Dick Zaffron, in a wistfully, beautifully melancholy mood was just perfect...
...Monday night game of Twenty One. Grand total: $138,000. As always, the lanky Columbia English instructor, just turned 31, put himself-and his audience -through the wringer to get his answers. But out they came in time's nick to give him two perfect 21 scores against Challengers John Kieran Jr., 35, son of the Information Please expert, and Dr. Hall Griffith, 57, a writer. The wringer produced stunning oddments of knowledge, e.g., the members of George Washington's first Cabinet...
...care given to no car sold off the showroom floor. Detroit's assembly-line mechanics always allow for a certain amount of "slop tolerance"; Daytona's setup experts allowed almost no tolerance at all. They had thousands of valve springs from which to choose sets in perfect balance, hundreds of carefully matched pistons as spares...
Thus, emerging out of politics, came progress that was more secure because of politics. "There is no doubt that these are not perfect documents," said U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. during the U.N. maneuverings, "but they are the product of compromise. They contain the words which can lead away from hostilities and toward an era of peace...
...partly salvaged. As James Callifer's mother, Dame Sybil Thorndike displays an almost vanished grand manner. As James's exwife, Leueen MacGrath has quiet poise. As James, Robert Flemyng manages to make flatness sharp and inner deadness alive, while Frank Conroy, as the uncle, is merely perfect...