Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...radio speeches by the Louisiana Senator, the President, the editor of Today, many another New Dealer, to add to a linguistic library which now includes 2,500 disks recording the speech of Maine farmers, Southern mountaineers, Barnard girls, Thomas A. Edison, Herbert Hoover, Al Smith and Calvin Coolidge ("perfect Connecticut Valley...
...help man a boat in an America's Cup race. Her job will be time keeper. At the start, with a stopwatch in each hand, she will let her husband know how many seconds he has before Endeavour can cross the line. Says she: "If our teamwork is perfect we should hit the starting line at full speed just as the gun flashes. . . . Yes, you may be sure I won't wear trousers. ... I watch for the flash to start my watches as it takes several seconds for the sound to reach us. I'm so busy watching...
...perfect combination. Messrs. Haight & Alcock had such clients as Standard Oil of Indiana and A. O. Smith Corp. But they found time for daily table-thumping conferences with Lawyer Goldstein, who did most of the drudgery. In four years, Mr. Goldstein spent 14,000 hours on the case, wore out three secretaries. He grew so preoccupied that he failed to recognize friends in the halls of his office. Messrs. Haight, Alcock & Goldstein took the case on a contingent basis-no victory, no fees, no expenses. They spent thousands from their own pockets and borrowed $210,000 from the City...
...husband is perfect! I call him 'honey,' but never Harold unless I'm mad. Where did I meet him? Well, I've been on my own since I got out of school, for mother travels a lot. I was living in a boarding house and [Harold] came along. In a couple of weeks we were engaged and in two months we were married. . . . I'm the only child prodigy Harold ever knew, so, of course, he thinks child prodigies are swell. He has no literary background, but he doesn't mind mine...
...grain experts could predict with perfect confidence that no one will starve for wheat. Piled high in grain elevators in the U. S., Canada and elsewhere are huge carry-overs from last year. From a curse these carryovers have now become a blessing. The U. S. has 265,000,000 bu. to cover her 140,000,000 bu. shortage for this year. By July 1935 the U. S. carry-over will be reduced to around 120,000,000 bu.?a normal carryover for the first time in seven years. Canada's surplus from last year...