Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first harmony achieved by the Luxembourg quartet-when the Big Four at last agreed on something and awarded the tiny Italian communities of Briga and Tenda to France-sounded off-key to a man who had a perfect ear for music, but who was politically a little tone deaf...
...Canterbury (Roman Durovernum), many feet below the leveled shopping district, the diggers found a 3rd-Century mosaic floor, as perfect as when its Roman builders set down their tools 1,700 years ago. A more elaborate floor (see cut) showed up in Low Ham, Somerset, complete with prancing mosaic horsemen, naked ladies, and amorous Roman warriors...
Queen Elizabeth in the black silk robes of a barrister (she rated them as an honorary bencher of the Middle Temple) looked moderately Portia-like, completely queenly, in a portrait by James Gunn. She gazed with perfect aplomb at visitors to the Royal Academy's summer show in London; later, barristers would gaze back at her, permanently on a Middle Temple wall...
...screen, so he has not bought a suit in five years. Says Iturbi: "The radio-ooh. If you make a mistake everyone hears it. They do not see you as a personality, they do not realize you are human. But the movies, ah. You repeat, you dub, you play perfect...
Said Evan Shute: "There must be failures in any treatment - nothing in medicine can be perfect. But we have not learned of a single failure. The percentage of success is remarkable...