Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such an investment, he brings along the beautiful Princess Catterina (Sylvia Sidney). No sooner has the lovely lady put her foot upon American soil than she is smitten with the beauty of the land and a bad case of mumps. Rising to the emergency the banker finds a perfect double in a minor stock actress, also played by Miss Sidney. The serenity of her triumph is disturbed when a wealthy newspaper owner (Cary Grant) determines to protect the public against the machinations of the banker and the beautiful lady. His order is considerably dampened when he meets the young actress...
...changed titles of the poems are not as fantastic and misleading as the title of the book, "The Hundred Names." There is no connection whatsoever between this anthology and the hundred surnames of the Chinese people. Well, not every one of us is a Goldsmith who could fish out perfect and beautiful titles for whatever he wrote...
Because the Stadium offers unusual facilities for track and field events, it is expected, that the Olympic committee will accept Bingham's offer. The track in the Stadium compares favorably with any in the country and the weight-throwing rings and jumping pits are in perfect condition. Harvard, with its Dillon Field House has ample housing facilities for the hundreds of athletes who will be competing. Also, Boston has supported former final tryouts with sizeable crowds, and a good profit would be in prospect. Track meets in other eastern cities have not met with the same enthusiasm and in many...
...developed equipment far surpassing any in existence. The fruit of ten years' work by the Bell Laboratories, the equipment was built on a new principle.* It could send 11 sq. in. of picture per minute, half a newspaper page in 17 min. The result was so nearly perfect that a layman could hardly distinguish between original print and telephoto. But A. T. & T. would not consider re-entering the precarious picture business by itself. Rather, it wanted one or more of the picture agencies to take the project over, leasing the $16,000 machines and A. T. & T. wires...
...Baxter is still waiting patiently for another perfect part, but he seems to wait pleasantly and forgivingly...