Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pure and simple. The right of players to the "H" is something the coaches should decide. Captains of minor sports squads deserve major letters--this has been recognized heretofore, but again only in special cases. Finally, to improve the morale of minor sports athletes, squads having excellent but not perfect records should receive major letters (teams with perfect seasons get them automatically). These changes have long been needed; if the HAA embraces modernization on the field of battle, it surely shouldn't shy away from new and sensible administrative policies...
...work out the idea of a new state," he insisted, underlining the word "must" 15 times. Lawrence suggested that in addition to a male "Dictator" the new state have a female "Dictatrix" too, in fairness to the female population. The ultimate aim, he continued with passionate wooliness, was "a perfect government" dedicated to "the highest good of the soul, of the individual, the fulfillment in the Infinite, in the Absolute...
Baby-Face & Sugar-Daddy. Lawrence took only a few more stabs at Bertie. "What's the good of living as you do?" he complained. "Why don't you drop overboard? . . . Do become a creature instead of a mechanical instrument . . . start at the very beginning and be a perfect baby . . . Oh, and I want to ask you, when you make your will, do leave me enough to live on . . . My love to you. Stop working and being an ego . . . Are you still cross...
...calls every 24 hours, with recorded weather information. It operates a teletype system which supplies 38 radio stations and 30 newspapers with predictions. It recently started a radio facsimile transmission service, which sends weather maps within a 70-mile radius of the city. Though still far from perfect, its information has improved in accuracy immensely during the three decades of Parry's service in New York...
...coded signal. When this reaches the omnirange, a repeater answers like an echo. An automatic device on the plane measures the time between the signal and the echo. It turns this interval into the distance in miles and "displays" it on a dial. This gives the pilot a perfect "fix." He knows his direction and distance from the omnirange. Therefore he knows exactly where he is, though there may be three miles of clouds between him and the earth...