Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great problems of Government is to determine to what extent the Government shall regulate and control commerce and industry, and how much it shall leave it alone. No system is perfect. We have had many abuses in the private conduct of business. That, every good citizen resents. It is just as important that business keep out of Government as that Government keep out of business...
Easily classified were the guests of the educators and the butchers. Henry Ford was first of cheap motorcar makers; Thomas Alva Edison was first to perfect the phonograph, the incandescent lamp and many another U. S. industrial staple. In photography, none outranks Rochester's music-loving George Eastman. Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis is 78, is dean of newspaper and magazine publishers. How long is their service to science and industry is indicated by the average of their ages-74. Younger are the two historic exponents of commercial aviation, youngest of great industries. Orville Wright, at 57, is seven years...
...speech, shook hands again. He continued speaking, shook hands again. He finished speaking, shook hands again. Mr. Fitzgerald then sang "Sweet Adeline" as he always does at emo- tional moments. Mr. Curley applauded. They shook hands (sixth time), for the cameras, and Boston's Democracy was lapped in perfect bliss for the first time since last spring...
...hospitals good enough for the American Medical Association to bother inspecting. Of those 1,919 (or 70 out of 100) are good grade (on the "approved list"); they have fair to excellent equipment for treatment and research. The situation is not perfect. But it is pleasing to doctors. Ten years ago only 12 out of 100 U. S. hospitals were fit for praise...
...Manhattan prominent artists cudgelled their imaginations for the perfect perfume bottle. Art, business and chemistry had effected a triangular combine which was expected to benefit all three. The Art Alliance of America had sponsored an invitation competition for perfume bottle designs in the modern manner. This was held at the instigation of Mr. & Mrs. Carlton Palmer of Brooklyn, who donated prizes of $500 and $200. Mr. Palmer is president of E. R. Squibb & Sons, manufacturing chemists, famed for toothpaste, milk of magnesia. More relevantly, he is vice president of Lentheric, ultra-modern Fifth Avenue perfume shop, where simplicity, angularity, silver...