Word: perfected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Benedictine monk, Dom Perignon, procurator of the Abbey of Haut Villers, who discovered the great secret of regulating the effervescence of champagne, late in the 17th century. Not only did he thus produce a perfect sparkling wine that gushed from the bottle and overflowed the glass, but he invented a system of cork's in place of the bit of oil-soaked rag that had hitherto been used; and, to humor his fancy, he adopted a tall thin tapering glass for the service of his wine in order that he might watch the play of the bubbles...
...Mead expects them to last longer than the 25 years of the old stairs' existence. The building has been made more attractive by the addition of new easy-chairs, and safer through the installation of a complete sprinkling system. The billiard room has been put in perfect condition with new cloths and cushions, new cues, and new pool and billiard balls...
...developed into an able quarterback, moved the year following to halfback, his regular position. He runs with a long bounding stride far better adapted to open field gains than line-plunging. He is not, as some have declared, an extraordinary sprinter. Though fast, he eludes tacklers rather by the perfect rhythm of his running?the hip-action by which he dodges without losing speed...
...physical condition of the University squad today should be almost perfect. The added week of training afforded by the two week preliminary practice agreement of Harvard. Yale, and Princeton has given the coaches a chance to have their men in excellent shape for the initial contest. They have been greatly aided in this by Trainer Farrell who has given up his active fall coaching of track to condition the gridiron men for their campaign...
...scale stands the grind, at the other the tramp athlete, and in between should be found the perfect student who seeks the Greek ideal of a vigorous mind in a beautiful body. The question that really deserves serious consideration is that of warped ideals, and not the minor influences of a manner of life which happens to include greater material comforts...