Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Norton Regional Planning chair. He gives the several centers of study in public administration their due but likes to feel that here "more than any other place . . . there is a genuine reflection in the student body of the different parts of the country." This is perfect grist for the mill of a man whose special approach to American government emphasizes the interplay of sectional differences. Gaus earries on his specific researches on civil service and the power-man conjunction within a frame of thinking that is almost a credo. The hall mark is distinguished service. But "politics" will win unless...
...cross country, where the premium is put on low scoring, the man who can compile eight points in eight meets has gone undefeated. Fifteen, the perfect score which coaches dream about, means that the winning team has placed five of its men ahead of the first man on the opposition...
...difficult or distasteful debate. Elizabeth Barrett, browbeaten daughter of a tyrannical father, was a bedridden invalid for 20 years-and was cured almost overnight when, at the age of 40, she met and married Robert Browning. In the Ode to a Nightingale, observes Dr. Dunbar, John Keats wrote a perfect, succinct description of a psychosomatic patient: "I have been half in love with easeful Death...
...unusually fine day at Brize Norton Aerodrome, near London. The U.S. Air Forces C-54 let down to a perfect landing. Out piled 14 passengers and crewmen, including U.S. scientists and a Royal Air Force observer. No one had touched the controls all the way from Newfoundland. The plane had taken off, flown the Atlantic, and landed without a pilot...
Skilled as they are in letter-perfect footwork, the Band knows the score musically as well. Bandsmen proudly explain that "Wintergreen," their most popular number, has more to it than meets the ear and is actually a blending of 2 Harvard, 2 Yale, 1 Dartmouth, and 1 Princeton songs, all mixed in with "Of Thee I Sing" and then wafted up the aisles of the Stadium. The semicircle formation used to offset the alphabetical parade down the field is an original idea and "Wintergreen" when first heard was considered a daring innovation. People weren't sure whether concert-type arrangements...