Word: perfectible
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rarely are the female subjects of gynecology's heroes honored. Three who suffered, willy-nilly, in the cause of surgical progress were the slaves Anarcha. Betsy and Lucy, on whom the flamboyant South Carolinian James Marion Sims (1813-83) operated repeatedly to perfect a method of closing openings (the result of childbirth injury) between the bladder and vagina-then one of the most distressing complaints that woman was heir to. Dr. Sims is honored with a statue in Manhattan's Central Park, but the slaves are not even named in Dr. Speert's index...
...Admen-bearing a bas-relief of St. Bernardino, and advertised in The New Yorker. "A new patron saint has been appointed! Henceforth St. Bernardino* of Siena will keep a special eye on advertisers, publicists and public relations experts . . . For anyone engaged in these professions, it's a perfect gift." Price...
...Army Jupiter with Little Old Reliable aboard got off its Cape Canaveral launching pad in a perfect takeoff. Atop the passenger's head was a tiny helmet with a microphone attached to record vocal sounds, and fitted into the little compartment were assorted instruments to measure heartbeat rate, blood pressure, body temperature, breathing rate. During the first few minutes of flight, while the missile was accelerating under the thrust of its engines, telemetering devices reported slowed-down and irregular breathing, slightly speeded-up heartbeat. Then, during about eight minutes of weightlessness while the missile was in ballistic flight, breathing...
...varsity swimming team should have no difficulty defeating a perennially weak M.I.T. squad in the first home meet at 8 p.m. in the I.A.B. pool tonight. Acting coach Bill Brooks does not expect a repeat of last year's perfect 72-8 score, since the Engineers are undefeated in this season's three outings...
...resources of this chorus are such that even when their singing is not perfect, it is of such high quality that one feels ungrateful in pointing out such faults as intonation problems and a rough tone here and there. The performance in general is so polished that a missed entrance or an orchestral flub is quickly overshadowed by an unexpectedly outstanding passage, such as in Gevaert's "Le Sommeil de L'enfant Jesus" when the chorus' exquisite pianissimo was breathtaking...