Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strike. "Thanks for your kind offer of a column outlet. The football season has ended. The basketball season has hardly started. The baseball season has yet to begin. IT jes' looks as though there ain't nuthin' doing nowhere, nohow. From a column-writing standpoint, this strike is perfect. I've just finished hanging on my door a sign, 'Do not disturb'. I aim to catch up on my sleep. No runs, no hits, no errors...
...North Korean compound, and they took another humiliating defeat: explanations 227: conversions 6. One P.W. argued two hours with his explainer about the Soviet loan to North Korea, then remarked: "You just don't seem to have any grasp of economics." Another P.W. asked the Indian chairman, in perfect English: "Doesn't this all seem a bit ridiculous to you?" The Indian grinned. On the P.W. tents now, beside the red, white and blue flags of Nationalist China, hung black and white streamers that read: "We Support the Indian Troops...
There is no reason why research of this type should not pay off quickly if there is enough money for an all-out effort. There is a perfect textbook example: in 1945 the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey sent a cancer-causing oil to Memorial and later to N.Y.U.'s Institute. The cancer-causing factor was identified and measures were perfected to limit the use of the oil and keep workers from being exposed to it. In the case of cigarettes, researchers are confident that the cancer-causing factor can be 1) identified and 2) removed from...
...Skyrocket's fuel (three tons) burned out at the end of the spurt. Scotty spiraled to the dry lake and made a perfect landing at 150 m.p.h. Asked how it felt to be flying twice as fast as sound, he said: "I had the flu and an awful headache, and about all I really wanted to do was to get this over and get down...
Boston University and Brown fell by 23 and 21 points before '57 avenged the '56, squad's only cross country defeat, sweeping the first nine places and downing the University of Massachusetts by a perfect 15 to 50 score...