Word: perfected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Trained in the old school of Tsaral diplomacy, M. Georg Tchitcherin, now Foreign Minister to the Soviet Union, represents a late and almost perfect flowering of the outworn cult of secret diplomacy. He still employs all its stock phrases, catch-subterfuges which seldom deceive a rabbit-for example, he never "goes on a mission" but "travels for his health." Yet when cornered and pressed for categorical answers to specific questions he speaks with the adroit tongue of a sibyl or a Machiavelli. Last week he arrived at Paris as expected (TIME, Dec. 7), and the Olympian game of interrogating...
...statement by Edward C. Blum, genial president of Abraham & Straus ("the Perfect Store") summed the matter up: "Brooklyn with its more than 2,000,000 population can support an institution of collegiate degree very easily. The institutions of that character in Brooklyn now, although they art private, are crowded to capacity and there are many waiting to enter or go elsewhere for their studies...
...transitional period of intertia, a static state of incubation, preparing the way for an eventual elevation to the heights of serene contemplation. To this end is the "Great Creed of Inaction", and Mr. Farrar's ideal lies in the other direction. "The truly wise man ignores reputation; the perfect man ignores self; the divine man ignores action." This is but the dictum of Chuang Tizu, the greatest of Taoist philosophers, and Taoism does not exert any very remarkable influence in this country; it can be no more than a suggestion. But even a suggestion that there is more than mere...
...nations have their customs and their institutions, their thoughts and their methods of life. If a Court is going to be international, its composition will have to yield to what is good in all these various elements. Neither will it be possible to support a Court which is exactly perfect, or under which we assume absolutely no obligations. If we are seeking that opportunity, we might as well declare that we are opposed to supporting any Court. . . . We shall not find ourselves bearing a disproportionate share of the world's burdens by our adherence, and we may as well...
...normal people expansion and contraction of the heart and the arteries go on without effort in perfect team play. But when the heart-in the worn-out or sick- must push the blood in abnormal amount or at too great speed through the arteries, these stretch, lose their elasticity, their contractile powers. They thicken in spots: thin in others. Them too the blood tries to heal; brings serum to weak spots, serum which turns gelatinous, gelatine which hardens, calcifies. The arteries become ropy, then hard like the stems of clay pipes. The patient has hardening of the arteries...