Word: perfected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...press Mrs. Pankhurst said: "Lord Hugh is a back number." Declared Lady Rhondda, famed feminine industrialist: "Of course Lord Hugh is talking perfect nonsense...
...Haven last week Lorado Taft, U. S. sculptor who was born the year before the Civil War began, declared, before the students assembled in Sprague Memorial Hall for the final Trowbridge lecture, that: "As Americans we have a perfect and inalienable right to our ignorance...
...passing of a bright light over a screen. Up to this time, and even now, the great difficulty in broadcasting moving objects has been brought about by a lack of intense light. Until a means can be secured of producing a very intensive light, television will be hard to perfect. However, I believe that this obstacle will be overcome in time...
...theater, gave us a new sensation in the world of the review. The moon-faced and altogether rotund. M. Balieff, with his apparently broken English and thousand quips and merry sayings, presented his sequence of light-hearted acts in a manner new to the American stage. Little scenery, perfect acting in any situation whatsoever, things unfortunately quite lacking in the reviews, were the two pins upon which gorgeous pageants which are American revues. M. Balieff hung his carefree production. He knew the right measure of the various components which go to taking the successful production. The same of course holds...
...thing quite different from what we know as war seems the accepted belief even of orthodox military experts. The use of chemicals, of gas, of long range projectiles, of legions of unexploited destructive agencies was just begun in the most recent war. Since then, there has been time to perfect and to elaborate the tentutive theories and knowledge which at first directed their use. That these will make war a more horrible enterprise than ever before seems obvious, but there are those like Mr. Wells, who will welcome their advent in the hope that their very effectiveness and potency will...