Word: perfectible
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vladimir Vasiliev, 19, the youngest member of the Bolshoi company. A favorite trick: to bound straight off the stage, extend one leg, tuck the other under him and casually descend in perfect balance on one foot...
...happy chance, it turned out that the neon lamps light up when exposed to radar waves with a power density of only 5 or 6 mw. sq. cm.-about half the permissible dose for man. So they are perfect for the purpose, and last indefinitely, Dr. Johnson and two Navy medical colleagues report in the United States Armed Forces Medical Journal. Photo flashbulbs can also be used for a one-shot warning: they go off when exposed to still smaller doses of microwave radiation...
...Paul Douglas), a beer-bellied, golden-hearted. Godsend-payday paragon of the old-fashioned vices: civic irresponsibility and the right to shirk. Inevitably, the Internal Revenue Service (Tony Randall) tries to catch up with him. "I'd like to look at your books," says tight-lipped Tony, the perfect black-shoe bureaucrat. Douglas looks puzzled. "I don't do much reading," he replies. But Tony forges ahead, deeper and deeper into a slough of Southern hospitality...
...blocked off (see cut), the picture looked dark by contrast with the light flooding in. Raphael took advantage of this apparent difficulty by making the saving angel the picture's chief vehicle of light. The angel comes as a refulgent minister of grace in darkness, dimly perceived, yet perfect...
DeKiewiet cleared 6 ft., 3 3/4 in. in qualifying for the trip along with freshman Marty Beckwith. In near-perfect form, deKiewiet made every height up to the record on his first attempt...