Word: perfected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chin give his head the shape of a child's peg top is Count Hermann Keyserling, 47, head of the Darmstadt School of Wisdom, and creator of sensitive, soul piercing books.* Like the humming of a peg top is Count Keyserling's conversation. He chattered and he lectured in perfect English, last week, to lionizing Manhattanites, but so rapidly and with so much finger-waggling that some were abashed and others annoyed...
...other hand, one feels that it is a little bit hard on a lecturer if all his little mannerisms, whether of speech or gesture, are to constitute an indictment against him, as one critic suggests. Even the B.B.C. announcers, who must of course be the most perfect speakers, have their little manenrisms...
...outstanding first-year skater was R. S. Ogden, who succeeded in netting three of the 12 goals. The scoring was well divided throughout the three periods, the goals registering regularly from beginning to end. M. G. Gammack made several perfect stops in the cage...
...Boston it looks different. Victories were less numerous. Innovations such as non-scouting were not attractive. The good will and sincerity of other universities in their relations did not always seem to predominate. Harvard does not like the system and is abandoning it. She has a perfect right to her own opinion. We respect her, because to her the plan appears in a different light. With the passing of time, a broadening of experience, and a possible change of perspective, the present evils of suspicion and mistrust that now attend the non-scouting policy may be less pronounced...
...There is no mistake either of fact or emphasis in the whole article. It seems in fact the perfect type of historical writing. The knowledge on which it is based is so broad and so mature that Professor Coolidge never had to stop the flow of his reader's thought by introduction of small facts as so many modern historians feel that they have to do."COOLIDGE...