Word: perfected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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recall the one moment of perfect beauty between them, when...
...have long had the Edison phonograph, the Maxim silencer, the Bell telephone. Now we are to have the Steinmetz truck. Dr. Charles P. Steinmetz, " wizard of Schenectady," has been working for several years to perfect an electrical truck. The product of his efforts has been placed on the market, and full-page advertisements are appearing in the newspapers. They bear a statement over Dr. Steinmetz's signature that the trucks effect a saving of from 25 to 50 per cent over gasoline and horse-drawn vehicles, and a picture of the inventor-perfecto in mouth-covering a quarter...
...GENTLEMAN FROM SAN FRANCISCO-I. A. Bunin-Seltzer ($1.50). These are four Russian short stories worthy to be spoken of in the same breath with those of Tchekov; two of them-the title story and Gentle Breathing - are almost perfect. Bunin's plots are unimportant. He has the power to make bald facts live flamingly...
...Freshman rifle team defeated the Princeton Freshmen by the score of 496-493. Captain F. D. Stranahan Jr. and F. W. Perkins each turned in a perfect score. A. R. Allen and B. B. Leahey each scored 99, while W. K. Wells turned in the score of 98. The Freshmen's final match will be with Yale on Thursday, March...
...beautiful scenery around him, and the evidences of his lyrical genius. Although these poems may appear dry to us because they have been forced upon us as required reading, to the readers of Milton's time they were filed with wonderful freshness, and still stand out as perfect examples of lyric poetry. In Comus, which Milton wrote next, we see the theme of temptation and the disciplinary power of temptation, which ran through all of his later works." Professor Lowes also showed that in Milton we see a long conflict between his appreciation of beauty and his Puritan attitude toward...