Word: perfected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...college, in the first place, must remain large. Yet it also must remain efficient. To do both and continue as one unit in the present sense, is to become a machine. And culture has yet to result from the functioning, however perfect, of a machine. So there is only one possible method of maintaining the tradition and preserving the culture of less hurried years: that is to divide the college into small units under the same head. This, of course, does not mean that Harvard is to be chopped into bits and thown into the jaws of modernity. It suggests...
Carol, who is one of the best royal racing drivers in Europe, replied in perfect English...
...chorus," said M. Koussevitsky in reply to the reporter's obvious query, "which sang last night in the Requiem, is the most perfect choral organization of which I have any knowledge. When I conduct it, I feel as free and as much at my ease as when I am leading a large, excellently trained orchestra...
...have never heard a chorus which was under the same perfect artistic discipline, into which the men who have trained these organizations have instilled into these choruses. "This, of course, is a great factor in the artistic performance of such a large body of singers...
Next, when Chief Pilot Carl Ben Eielson stepped into the Alaskan's cockpit and signaled "Contact!" for a test flight, the craft bucked and plunged, struggled amain with roaring cylinders, but could not rise from the clinging snowfield. Overhead there was perfect flying weather, bright and clear. Eielson ripped the throttle wide open. The Alaskan roared forward, kicking up a small blizzard, and at last crept clear and aloft?only, when she landed after a brisk spin, to crash into a buried wire fence at the end of the field, smashing her propeller, landing gear and fuselage. No Pole flight...