Word: perfected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Brigadier General Dawes is one man certainly in a position to make remarks about Congress and politicians, even if one doubts his perfect impartiality in the matter. Always the champion of frank speech, "Hell and Maria" severely arraigned the cowardice of Congress in a recent speech in New York: "Men are in office who would barter the interests of their country in order to stay in office, and if there is any organized opposition they run. Look at the way they ran before the organized minorities of the soldier bonus bloc, the labor bloc, the maternity bloc, the good roads...
...perform all these wonders, a crankless engine, one that delivers the power, not by a heavy and cumbersome crankshaft, but by an oscillating disk. This disk, it is confidently predicted by the inventor, will transfer the power from engine to shaft with absolutely no waste of energy. Such perfect efficiency will permit a car to run a thousand miles on a single tank of gasoline. Advertising will no longer read "tires guaranteed for ten thousand miles" but "a gallon of our best will take you where you want...
Coach Fisher yesterday selected the team which will start against Holy Cross tomorrow and put the finishing touches on the combination with a long signal drill and dummy scrimmage during which special pains were taken to perfect the Crimson defense against the speedy Worcester backfield...
Then, if ever, come perfect days...
...perfect picture of the lazy man's heaven. He will arrive in his airplane, land on top of his office building and descend in an elevator. Whether there will be a means of saving him the exertion of toddling from the elevator to his office door is not yet clear. But if he has an errand somewhere it will only be a matter of riding to the ground and slighting on the swiftly moving sidewalks...