Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...SALE. - At a considerable reduction a "Hammond" Typewriter, but little used and in perfect order...
...SALE. - At a considerable reduction a "Hammond" Typewriter, but little used and in perfect order...
...SALE. - At a considerable reduction a "Hammond" Typewriter, but little used and in perfect order...
...game, according to a dispatch from New Haven to a New York paper: Just before Yale made her second touch down an engine on the Connecticut River road which stood on a siding near the grounds blew out an immense ring of smoke. It floated over the field a perfect O. As it sailed over the Harvard eleven Yale scored the touch down, and as McClung kicked the goal the ring gradually broke and spread into a distant Yover the Yale team...
Since the Renaissance there have been four principal motives for search and study of medeaeval ideals. First the humanist desire to perfect the literary style of the day. Second the patriotic instinct regarding a country's past. Third, the fancifal interest in Chivalry of the Romantic movement, and fourth the desire of jurists to trace the development of law. Beside these dilletantiism led to the revival of the trouvier and troubadours...