Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent years these two have been almost submerged by the rise of a third, if unwritten policy-Anti-New Deal. The high tide of reaction was reached in 1935, when the most charitable liberal observation was the New Republic's: that that year's convention was a "perfect example of Bourbonism in full flower." Even the New York Times remarked caustically that "spokesmen for business organizations ought not to sound like the Chairman of the Republican National Committee...
...reading right through Gibbon every other year and whittling paper-knives from the lids of cigar-boxes." As mistress of Knole Castle and pet of Edward VII, Victoria took London into camp as she had Washington, married the heir to Knole, first cousin Lionel Sackville-West, shy, quiet. the perfect English country gentleman, five years her junior...
...same time brilliant Yardling grapplers scored a smashing victory over the Crimson and Gray Freshmen by a perfect 40-0 tally...
...paid and how labor ought to be handled; but more effective than the words is the fact, more valuable than the preaching is the practice. In research, in education, and in diffusion of culture, Harvard tries to be the leader, and never satisfied with the present, strives to perfect its technique and reach the ultimate best. In handling its employees, it is a slave to other corporations practices...
...pardon me, but I think I can make a point concerning your comments and your readers' comments on errors in pronunciation as perpetrated over the radio by certain prominent speakers. I doubt that there is any such thing as perfect speech. There are dialects, tones of voice, inflections and peculiarities characteristic of the inhabitants of various sections of the country. The so-called American language is a conglomeration of these various speeches and accepted usage is often a matter of locality...