Word: perfected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...theory that numerous witnesses should be present at royal births came to its perfect flower in the France of Louis XVI. Marie Therese Charlotte, the first child born to that King and Marie Antoinette entered the world in the presence of everyone who could squeeze into her bedroom at the moment of delivery (at least 40). Servants valiantly ejected by the collar many a burly fellow, no longer privileged to remain after the event...
...Roman court, splendid composite of Imperial Roman style, is the Sardis room containing the almost perfect Ionic column and other objects found at Sardis. Nearby is the Cesnola collection of Cypriote antiquities...
...these little criticisms disturb you. It is a critic's unfortunate duty to go on the assumption that no show is perfect; in fact unless we made a few somewhat artificially nasty remarks, you would go on the assumption that, like Mr. Henderson, we were simply blowing yen the goofus...
...entering the Department of History the student has the benefit of working in the division which has done most to perfect the tutorial system the general examination, and all the new paraphernalia of education that go therewith. This is no mean consideration. One may study at Harvard and study at Harvard. It makes a vast difference exactly where. The Department of History is a good place...
...naturalistic tendency of its design the pottery we found in the Mimbres Valley seems to be entirely peculiar to that section of Indian territory. On one bowl for instance is an almost perfect representation of a lizard...