Word: perfected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...certainly one of the greatest libraries in the world, and far excels any University library I have ever seen. The facilities it offers are the most striking things about it. Every professor and many earnest students can have his study there in the stacks in perfect quiet and within reach of all the books he may need in his work...
...Museum would soon start raising three millions for a projection planetarium, a dome 75 feet in diameter atop a five-story building designed as an astronomical centre for scholars, amateurs, sightseers of the whole country. Searchlights, meticulously aimed and synchronized, will cast into a night-blue field with a perfect illusion of limitless space, bright images of the moon, the sun, the planets, stars and Milky Way. In 26 minutes instead of 26,000 years the incredulous may behold a complete succession of the equinoxes...
Mozart is as perfect as a Fragonard, and as naughty. That it is historically absurd matters not at all. That it may even miss the spirit of the composer almost fails to matter. All that seems of lasting importance is that Mile Printemps should have the most perfect, manicoloured bubble over which to dance ever so lightly and never too long. With that and the master of ceremonies air of M. Guitry in their pocket the audience goes away well pleased...
Sabin Carr, brilliant Yale pole-vaulter, broke his newly-established record of the B.A.A. meet, by clearing the bar at thirteen feet nine and one quarter inches. Vaulting with perfect form and ease, Carr cleared each height and left his previous world record below him in a wonderful exhibition...
...contained 30 general quizzes and 10 special ones. Editor Swope did better on "Current Politics," getting 96%. Grantland Rice produced an immaculate 100% on "sports." Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick tallied no errors on "The Bible." Criticism issued freely-from Colyumnist Broun to protest that "one might score a perfect tally and remain an oaf," from a World editorial writer to protest that "a man who treasures up a piece of information like the height of Brooklyn Bridge has a screw loose somewhere...