Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sunday Dane and Thomas placed 19th and 21st, respectively, out of 40 competitors in the Eastern Downhill Championships on the Wildcat trail. The two raced over the near perfect condition of light fluff on top of hard packed powder...
...There may be a possibility of swinging back from the West Coast via New England instead of New York, but that is pretty doubtful. We thought Harvard would be a perfect place to include on the itinerary, but the Russians expressed no interest in going there," Nagle said...
Died. Hannibal Choate Ford, 77, noted engineer-inventor, who helped the late Elmer Sperry perfect the Gyro-Compass (1911), during and after World War I developed the world's first mechanical control-computer for naval gunfire; of arteriosclerosis; in Kings Point...
When produced with a budget and talent pool that is relatively unlimited, The Seagull seems too demanding in its delicate excellence, and being several cuts below perfect each production failed. In this case, since one can expect little more than a game try at perfection, the audience is left with a warm glow at the thought that a Harvard group has done so well...
This provided a perfect opportunity to introduce Koussevitzky to the Harvard and Radcliffe singers. At first the conductor did not want to accept Davison's offer; he though something must have gone drastically wrong in rehearsals and that Davison wanted to escape blame at the actual concerts. He finally agreed to conduct, however, and after the concerts wrote; "Harvard has the best trained chorus I have ever heard in any country of the world...