Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lessen the demand for food by shipping locomotives and trucks. A few ships carrying North African phosphates across the Mediterranean would produce food which otherwise would have to be sent across the Atlantic. Feed for European livestock would greatly help Europe to provision its own table. But even with perfect planning (plus good weather), the U.S. probably would have to eat less to win the peace...
...with stopwatch accuracy. At ten-second intervals the tow planes moved in from the sides, gently tautened the line, then poured on power and roared down the runway and off into the sky. By then the day had dawned clear and bright, with a near-perfect ten-mile wind...
...horizontal and vertical lines, convinced that the right angle was the purest "expression of the two opposing forces [which] constitute life." To the uninitiated, the result might look something like a linoleum pattern, but Mondrian spent days shifting colored Scotch tape around a canvas, hoping to achieve a perfect harmony of balanced rectangles...
Bilingual. At Fort Benning, Ga., the mystery of strange sounds in the night was finally solved when it was discovered that Officer Candidate George Chew speaks perfect English in the daytime, perfect Chinese in his sleep...
Outside, an R.A.F. officer asked: "What do you think of the railroad station?" Blankly the correspondent asked, "What railroad station?" The officer waved at a nearby pile of twisted steel. "The perfect answer," he said...