Word: perfected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subtle variety of mood and thought into an almost motionless stage-picture. Scene follows scene with scarcely a change of position, each motion of arm or body being made to serve for deepest significance. The three misunderstanding friends, and Eilhu too, are individualized and play their parts each in perfect key; this must be, or the play would never carry. The lighting, mechanically perfect, seems to grow from the characters themselves, shifting with their mood, and always throwing the picture into the most appropriate emphasis. The simple costumes are perfect foils for the light; incidental music and even off-stage...
...This means that on the farm where the brain works as much as the hand, the work to be done is becoming specialised. It requires that the farmer concentrate on one line and take advantage of his position in a field where competition is decreasing and demand for a perfect product is increasing...
...names are no; the only handiwork of the industrious scholar. One man, a student of the Greek dramatic poets, has carved a miniature Greek amphitheater, so perfect in detail that even the button for turning on the footlights is seen. Another man, attempting to reconcile the material ugliness about him, has made a bas-relief of a beautiful woman. A Kentuckian once carefully cut out his name, and the next hour another Kentuckian came along and whittled out the first Kentuckian's name to make place for his own. Thereby was a famous fend started...
...third time, sent the ball between the posts for the first score. In the third quarter Chapin made a fair catch and Owen sent across a placement for three points more. After the teams had changed positions at the beginning of the fourth quarter, Neidlinger booted a perfect 48-yard placement kick over the goal posts. Somewhat later, when the Green was advancing in mid-field, Harris fell back unprotected to make a pass. Jenkins rushed in from his end, knocked the ball up in the air just as it left Harris's hand, and caught it again...
...time during the season had Princeton displayed such an excellent brand of football. The line was wide awake and stopped every new Chicago play before it was underway. The overhead attack was nearly perfect and the line plunging was greatly improved...