Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...press and people, if they credited Herr Hitler with some hits, seemed still to believe that Mr. Roosevelt's search for world peace with relative justice was a search more honest than Hitler's reply; and that, although the U. S. may not have a perfect moral record in history, the only hope for men of good will now is in a moral future...
...makes little difference whether or not tutoring is really advantageous to the student. Regardless of how useless a review--consisting of oversimplified digests of lecture notes--may be, persuasive advertisements make him imagine that actual benefit can be had. This situation would exist even under a system of perfect examinations. In printing an advertisement of a parker-Cramer review, the Progressive is helping to foster the exaggerated demand for spoon-fed education...
Meanwhile out on the Charles, the varsity has by no means been taking it easy doing the past raceless week. It has really made progress in smoothing out the boat. With almost perfect catching in the land race, Walt Kernan has improved varsity. Now there is only a question of finishing before the varsity will be able to meet any crew in the East...
...Thoreau. As the Times's critic, he has by far the greatest single influence on box office. Cultivated, impishly able to carve a "turkey" with the best of them, he is now & then a sucker for high-toned emptiness, sometimes recoils from the sweaty and disagreeable. His perfect dish: Our Town...
...Vermont poor boy, Thad Stevens was admitted to the bar in John Wilkes Booth's birthplace, Bel Air, Md., practiced law in York, Pa. He had the tough, narrow tenacity and discernment of the perfect sectional and sectarian infighter. As far as he saw, he saw clearly; as far as he thought, he thought honestly and without sentiment. His passionate sympathy for the Negro found fearless expression in his years of intimacy with his mulatto housekeeper, Lydia Smith, generally accepted as his common-law wife...