Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President took off his shoes, extended first his right foot, then his left. "Wonderful feet... size 8 ... almost perfect for walking purposes . . . indicative of a cool, steady life," said Dr. Peter Kahler, Manhattan orthopedist, who measured the presidential feet and took orders for presidential footwear. Flappers, he added, might well be proud of feet like Mrs. Coolidge's, also "almost perfect," size 4 1/2. Dr. Kahler's grandfather made size 14 shoes for President Lincoln...
...bulky and expensive apparatus, does not yet loom as a standard addition to the home telephone. But theatre audiences, in the not too distant future, may see super newsreels of prizefights, launchings, inaugurations, broadcast directly from the scene of the event with all their attendant noises. While not yet perfect, television had reached its highest stage of development in last week's demonstration. Engineer Ernst Frederick Werner Alexanderson of the U. S., with his seven beams of light, John L. Baird of England, with his super-sensitive photo-electric cell and infra-red rays, C. Francis Jenkins in Washington...
...heavily handicapped by lack of money that parts of his first apparatus were improvised from dismembered bicycles, shoeboxes, wax, twine, pliers, screws, gimcracks. Last week, the manna of money fell thickly about him. A company with a capital of $625,000 was incorporated in London to exploit and perfect his process of television...
...appalling thing to see a great State in the full exercise of its faculties, steer deliberately toward an act of profound and irrevocable injustice. Judicial murder has often been committed by mistake, by inadvertence, or through an accidental accumulation of misleading circumstancial evidence. There is no perfect justice in human affairs. But this is not a case of stumbling in the dark while trying to see: it is a case of wilfully closing eyes to the light. It is not necessary that justice should be always achieved; it is necessary that we have the will to achieve justice...
...report that he was killed. He proceeds as Matthew Knowle, the pen-name under which he just published his most successful novel of all, to start a new life "from zero." The Matthew Knowle novel provides funds and Author Owen provides our hero with his conception of a perfect woman, a small divorcee with every quiet grace and no questions. When the posthumous production of the late John Garth's first play is a huge success; when Mrs. Garth, penitent, lies gravely ill; when Matthew Knowle sees the grown son that John Garth sired, the divorcee, Julia, acts "sportingly." Wrench...