Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...probably as good a place as any to bring a world problem. The echoing college gymnasium had been equipped with a false ceiling, a false floor, and paneled walls. Rose drapes and beige furniture had transformed the gym into a warmly decorated chamber with seats for 692 and perfect acoustics. Its council table held hidden microphones, its glassed-in balcony a gleaming mass of radio, motion picture and television equipment. It even had a specially built steel ballot box, equipped, against any eventuality, with a padlock...
...tone of the picture is set at the start by narrator Bob Benchley. "This, he says, "is the perfect example of how not to make a good picture." Perhaps it isn't art, but its much more worth-while than most of Hollywood's more serious efforts...
Said a recently demobilized R.A.F. man: "Churchill has given Stalin the perfect opportunity for saying that the rest of the world is against Russia...
...phoned Miss Stein in Paris and asked if they might call on her. "Certainly," she replied, "you certainly may come up, please come up, please come up right away." They did, and in the midst of being slapped down for their opinions on French politics, were snapped up as "perfect" for her new play...
...wrote in faithfulness to "a principle placed. In the human mind, which in different places and ages hath had different names; it is, however, pure and proceeds from God. It is deep and inward, confined to no forms of religion nor excluded from any, when the heart stands in perfect sincerity. In whomsoever this takes root and grows, they become brethren...