Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vacation was doing wonders for the President, said White House Physician Graham. After the first week of it, Harry Truman was tan, fit and relaxed. His weight was at a perfect 176 Ibs. He was in fighting trim, and judging by the week's news in the Senate, he would need...
Optical experts know that the 200-inch Palomar mirror, even though it works well now, can work even better after a delicate repolishing of its outer ten inches. The great telescope will not start on its real program of charting the outer universe until it is as perfect as scientific skill can make it. The world's astronomers, impatient for news from a billion light-years away, do not mind waiting a little longer...
Bouquets. At a Greater New York Fund-raising luncheon, New York's C.I.O. Boss Louis Hollander freely expressed his opinion of John D. Rockefeller III. Said Hollander: John D. and his four brothers (TIME, Jan. 31) were perfect models of a rich man's sons. They saw their responsibility as "custodians" of their great wealth rather than owners of it, and were spending it on socially useful projects instead of nightclubs and "riotous living...
...potpourri of the original music; he had taken six or seven of his best themes, added some new material, then stirred and blended it all into a symphonic piece, in the tradition of his great Death and Transfiguration (1889). Said Conductor Reiter: "Strauss's music craft is as perfect as ever...
...Czech newsmen's congress was told that to make the Czechoslovakian press "perfect," all but one of these would be necessary...