Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Willis letter, continuing, revealed that he, a candidate for the Presidency, had stooped to discuss patronage: "... I have played the game square. ... I can only say this, in perfect good nature, that if in this contest the organization feels that what I have done is of so little importance as not to merit consideration, I shall, of course, feel in the remaining time I am in the Senate, that I will be fully justified in following a different course...
Recent diggings in Nebraska revealed a few similar and more perfect teeth. These the museum staff had studied and were delighted to learn that they had erred in their first deduction. The teeth, they announced last week, had served no anthropoidal beast, but an ancient, bristly, snub-nosed pig, a peccary, rooting in Nebraska several millenia...
...baby basset hound was far away from all this turmoil. Unconscious as yet that his coat is more sleek and warm than that of ordinary basset hounds, not knowing that his dark eyes have in them a more perfect lustre or that his bandy legs have a more effective warping, he slept in the early evening, dreaming, doubtless, of rabbits in which a basset hound delights. For him, there will be a year more of fields and country kennels. Then he will go to his first show. It will surprise...
...Build a new bowl within the miles of Boston in some naturally drained and topographically perfect piece of land where it can be supported by solid earth...
...national title-holder, who also won the metropolitan squash racquets championship at the University Club, New York, during the week of January 16, was able to triumph over Baker because of his perfect footwork and his skillful anticipation of his opponent's shots. Rawlins had complete control over his racquet...