Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...August issue of the Forum, Frederick S. Hoppin gives an able description of balloon jumping, looks into the future: "Why should we not in time perfect a moderate sized knapsack filled with some highly volatile non-inflammable gas which, strapped comfortably to our back, would be able to lift some 20, 30, or 40 pounds off our burden of flesh? ... If we should ever have knapsacks of unlimited power, our whole present day world will be turned upI side down. ... All the legislatures will be busily engaged in passing laws prohibiting people from leaving the earth too freely, or rules...
...Fascist-controlled press of Rome displayed last week a little story, perfect as a gem, concerning small Bruno Mussolini, 9, younger son* of II Duce. Bruno's schoolteacher, it seemed, was recently examining him in grammar and desired to elicit the information that, in Italian, a verb may take the imperative mood in the second or third person but not in the first. "Now Bruno," said the examiner, "tell me in what person one cannot command...
...Your articles about him have been excellent, not hysterical, and it is a treat to read such interpretations of a character, so fine and noble, as this young American, who has forever endeared himself to the youth of our land, and to the mothers, who hail him as a perfect symbol of all that is wholesome and true. Square yourselves with the countless readers of TIME, and give us a picture of this world famous youth...
...fear us; America knows there is no possibility of war with Great Britain?then why does Washington insist on limiting our navy below the strength the Admiralty states we require? . . . [Referring to a point in the U. S. proposal, and banging his fist on the table] This is perfect nonsense!" Immediately Mr. Gibson demanded a retraction which Viscount Cecil made...
...rose-strewn path after a brief detour to transact private business in Washington and Manhattan. The path led him to Ottawa, Canada, at the head of a whizzing formation of twelve U. S. Army planes from Selfridge Field, near Detroit. He and the Spirit of St. Louis made a perfect landing to the huzzahs of a crowd assembled for Canada's Diamond Jubilee (TIME, July 4). One of his escort, Lieut. J. Thad Johnson, was less fortunate. Circling in a close triad formation while the plane of honor landed, Lieutenant Johnson confused the ship beside him, which ticked...