Word: perfected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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According to recent press reports the Kuzbas experiment is still very much alive. "Kuzbas" is a Utopian colony located at Kamerovo, Siberia, where American radical workers migrated to carry out their syndicalist and communist theories " in perfect freedom." It was originally under the leadership of "Big Bill" Haywood, the I. W. W. chief who jumped his bail while under a 20-year jail sentence, but he was ejected by the colonists for incompetence. Following this, disillusioned members of the colony returned to America bringing back gloomy tales of the failure of Kuzbas and charging certain radical promoters of the venture...
...Saturday afternoon the Crimson golfers triumphed over Columbia, winning all the individual and foursome matches. Peirson and Hodder each went around the links in 72, playing almost perfect golf. None of the matches were else with the exception of the Williams-Latham contest which resulted in a victory for the Crimson captain, two up and three to play...
...British West Indies, of course, are eager for annexation to the United States. Most of them are negroes, and they have heard of our lynching bees, Jim Crow discriminations and grandfather clauses with increasing envy. The people of Barbados are tired of having magazine writers describe their perfect government, as recently in Scribner's, and want a little Thompsonism or E. Mont Reilyism. As for the Philippines, every one knows that the Tribune for a quarter century has led the Republican press in such demands as 'Haul down the flag!' 'We want scuttle...
...third time in two years the University baseball team went down to defeat before the Holy Cross nine, losing by the score of 1 to 0. Both teams played perfect baseball with the exception of a single error by Gautreau which allowed Thayer to reach first. The game soon resolved itself into a battle between the rival pitchers, both supported by alrtight fielding. Carroll, who lost his first game of intercollegiate baseball last week in the Holy Cross-Princeton game, pitched a beautiful nine innings, striking out seven men and allowing only one hit which Gordon scored in the first...
...weathers and nearly one third of the total number of 23,077 trips were made in rain, snow, hail or fog. The number of forced landings is always diminishing and the percentage of trips completed during 1922 was 95.22, while the schedule maintained during the summer months was 100% perfect...