Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Characterizing the Taft-Hartley law as "the perfect crime" against the cause of labor, Lee Pressman, general counsel for the Congress of Industrial Organizations, last night attacked the recent act section by section before a tightly-packed Law School crowd in Langdell Court. Pressman appeared as the guest of the University chapter of the National Lawyers Guild...
...inch mirror for the mighty telescope at Mt. Palomar was finally pronounced finished. Grinding and polishing began in 1938, was stopped in wartime, and resumed at the end of 1945. Now the big glass disc, yellowish blue and slightly murky like an old Pyrex dish, is a paraboloid perfect within two millionths of an inch...
...world he becomes a heartless butcher, a quick target for civilian public opinion, a perfect scapegoat for the Pentagon's brass hats, easy prey for congressional busybodies making overseas inspection tours. No pleas, no threats will budge Dennis: he is as adamantine of mind as he is agonized of soul. Eventually he is relieved of his command. But at the very end, his successor is won over to his policy...
...Heiress (adapted from Henry James's Washington Square by Ruth & Augustus Goetz; produced by Fred F. Finklehoffe) turns a well-nigh perfect novel into a very imperfect but highly interesting drama. That is no trifling feat, for the novel is not very dramatic. Mr. & Mrs. Goetz give the story more kick by settling for less art. At their worst, they are not so much collaborating with Henry James as colliding with him; but on the whole they do a good job. Famed Director Jed Harris (Broadway, The Front Page, Our Town) does a better...
...problem of the South is still not a problem in the educational temple of Virginia. In the written recollections of one graduate of 1900 is a kind word for janitor Henry Martin-"his manner is urbane and dignified and his probity perfect-in short he is a fine old colored gentleman...