Word: perfected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announced that Sir Richard Haget, well known experimenter, has devised an artificial throat capable of uttering with close perfection the tones of human speech and song. In this is recalled the age-old attempts to create a human-like mechanism that could talk like a man. Albertus Magnus is said to have constructed one so perfect that his pious pupil, Thomas Aquinas, smashed the machine with a cane, saying that it was the work of Satan and that Satan was in it. In more recent years mechanical reproductions of the human throat have been attempted, but some of the vowel...
Saturday afternoon on the Quinnebang River the Freshman first four-car crew suffered defeat at the hands of Pomfret School. The race started at 6.30 o'clock, and was rowed upstream under perfect weather conditions. Pomfret took the lead at the start, holding it all the way, although the Crimson was gaining towards the finish. The time of the winning crew was 2 minutes and 53 1-5 seconds...
...Knowlton. Both men scored when Slayton hit a liner to right field. Verigan fielded a grounder by Todd poorly and the third Crimson run crossed the plate. Both Todd and Field, who reached first on a single to center, scored when Allen placed the ball over second for a perfect texas leaguer. The rally closed on a fly to left field by Maher, having netted five runs...
Perhaps the motto that practice makes perfect will find new application. But at least, it is certain that comparatively few of the now "modern" works will stand the test of time. Only quality survives and the classics of the past appear moderately safe even in competition with the multitude of modern books...
...grounder to the shortstop, who seemed slightly rattled and threw over the first baseman's head, allowing the runner to reach second. A grounder by Hammond advanced him another base. Burgess then hit sharply to the second baseman, who tried to catch Hill at the plate. The throw was perfect, but the ball was twisted out of the catcher's hand, giving the University its only run and tieing the score. In the same inning another score was almost registered when Burgess made an unsuccessful attempt to steal home on a short throw to second...