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Word: perfected (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...particularly noteworthy to take cognizance of the fact that a home-and-home arrangement has been effected with Harvard. This resumption of football relations, under these conditions, gives evidence of a longer and more perfect relations than that which might result from only a one-year agreement. The Pennsylvanian...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS-- | 12/3/1926 | See Source »

...class morality. Together with Beryl Mercer as a simple housekeeper who understands women better than the celebrated bachelor scientists, they offer as fine a performance as the Guild or any other organization, can boast for this season. Liza Doolittle, howling gutter-virgin, is transformed by Scientist Higgins into a perfect specimen of Dutchess Britannica-triumph for Mr. Higgins' theory of phonetics. As the outside of a beautiful Duchess, the love-starved waif finds herself in a cruel predicament. She is more woman than artist, would rather sustain a black eye than the impersonal, scientific objectivity to which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Theatre: Nov. 29, 1926 | 11/29/1926 | See Source »

...terms of her own contract, awakened by a kiss. The steps to the throne again - the Emperor and all his people gathered once more to see Turandot lead in Calaf, Prince of the Tartars, and announce his name as Love. Opinions for the most part were in perfect accord. The production itself was lavish beyond compare, Maria Jeritza was wonderfully effective as Turandot, so glinty cold as to send the shivers down 4,000 spines as she shrilled her desire to avenge all men. Giacomo Lauri-Volpi was a loud, adequately heroic Calaf. But there were none of those sweet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Turandot | 11/29/1926 | See Source »

...Squad in Perfect Condition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RUNNERS TO ENTER INTERCOLLEGIATES WITH CLEAN SLATE | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

...game. Many of the ablest and most discriminating advocates of football as a college sport argue that the gridiron game stands emphatically not for the prowess of the individual, but for the ability of the team, that the game is founded on the perfect functioning of a machine in which the individual player is submerged, that the success of a team depends on the ability of eleven men to fuse themselves, mind and muscle, into a unit for a struggle with another group of eleven men who also strive not for personal glory, but for co-operative success. This dinner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

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