Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well protected, will watch the explosion from ten miles away. But most will be stationed twice as far off. Captain G. M. Lyon, Navy doctor, considers 20 miles perfect for safety and good observation. "People up close at Alamogordo," he said, "missed some of the show...
This time, like a circus performer whose first try and miss only show how hard the trick is, she hurdled a perfect A flat...
...Psycho Acoustic Lab. Davis made painstaking tests to find out more about the workings of the partially deafened ear, and to measure the loudest sound which both normal and defened subjects could tolerate with comfort. Using conscientious objectors as guinea pigs, he was able to design the "theoretically perfect hearing...
...work shines with the steadiness of those far suns whose light reaches us over unimaginable distances. To Wordsworthians, Wordsworth at his best is the greatest English practitioner, after Milton, of that literary form to which Matthew Arnold gave the classic definition: "Now poetry is nothing less than the most perfect speech of man, that in which he comes nearest to being able to utter the truth...
...Major John Huston's The Battle of San Pietro, most humane, most moving, most nearly perfect of war pictures documentaries...