Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recast of the pitching records of the seven hurlers on the University squad shows four who have perfect scores. R. H. Booth '27 has won two games and lost none, while Willard Howard '28, E. L. Molloy '29 and Howard Whitemore '29, have each won one contest and have suffered no defeats. Of the hurlers who have appeared on the mound oftener, J. N. Barbee '28 is in the lead, with six wins and one loss, for an average of .857. R. R. Ketchum '29 has won three and lost one for .750, and F. B. Cutts '28, with three...
...impecunious, consumptive scientist needs $900 to perfect his tuberculosis remedy. His good wife earns just that sum by vending her virtue to the villain. Her subsequent endless remorse is no more awful than the boredom of the audience. The play is embellished by glimpses into dens of vice along Riverside Drive...
This ghostliness is what, if anything, marks Poet Robinson's limitation. He has written exquisitely of high romance. His lines, flexibly austere, trace out the action sharply and whip passion to its perfect pitch. But then, often, the simple words are tortured and strained deviously to sustain ecstasy, in bodiless comparative discussions of ecstasy itself. Then the lines ache like tendons not strong enough to keep a soaring hawk aloft, needing a gust of action, a wingbeat of refreshed emotion to lift the poem again...
...former fielding figure of 963 to the present mark of 939. Individual averages suffered a like dropping off, the responsibility for the team's miscues being pretty evenly divided among the various players. Jones is the only player who has been in action regularly who has maintained a perfect fielding record...
...Temporarily bored with civilization, its services, its ease and its sophisticatons, Walter Overlook breaks away from hs successful business in New York, and plays hookey in the Maine farming country, in the very house where he was born. After fifteen years he meets his boyhood sweetheart and finds her perfect in her country setting, but no longer of his world. This experience has an unexpected ending...