Word: perfectable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FUTURE OF GERMANY, by Karl Jaspers. In a lucid and persuasive essay, the 85-year-old German philosopher urges his countrymen to build a nation based on individual responsibility rather than on an atavistic dream of a perfect system...
That story suited L.B.J. fine, wrote Lewis. "It constituted an almost perfect pitch for a silence-is-golden plea while he continues his effort to win the Viet Nam war with present policies." But the story didn't suit Lewis, whose sleuthing disclosed that Blondin was an imperturbable craftsman. He was a child prodigy on the rope at six. By the time he tackled Niagara at 36, he was able to go across once on stilts, another time with both feet in a sack, once again with a man on his back. On one occasion he sat down...
...with considerable savings in time and capital expense. Up to now, when glassmakers wanted to produce tints-even with a float process-they either had to shut down and convert regular lines or else build an additional plant. Under the new method, which cost $2.8 million to research and perfect, machines bombard the molten glass with microscopic metallic particles as it passes across the tin bath. With an investment of only $36,000, glassmakers can add the tinting process to a regular plant, color as much as desired bt the continuous ribbon of glass. Says Sir Harry Pilkington, 62, chairman...
...none of the wishes works out quite right. In answer to one, Moore is turned into a voluble young intellectual who plies the willing Bron with Brahms; just as her defenses begin to crumble, a scratch on the record breaks the romantic mood. Moore also asks to have a perfect spiritual union with his beloved, but he fails to specify one important detail and thus ends up as a nun. Finally, his wishes spent, he throws himself on Cook's mercy; in a resolution that would have sickened Goethe and Marlowe, the Devil inexplicably turns gentleman and calls...
Harvard made it 3-1 shortly thereafter on the prettiest play of the night as Fredo took Jack Garrity's pass and hit Kent Parrot with a perfect feed in front of the crease. Parrot fired the puck into the nets...