Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Holmes as a ladies' man: "At Haldane's on Sunday his sister said that she remembered you most perfectly in the 'nineties as the most perfect flirt in London. It was all, she said, in a way you had of cocking your eye that they found quite ravishing...
Hopes for a Crimson first-place fell when defending one-meter diving champion Pete Dillingham finished second behind Yale's Kenny Welch. Welch exhibited near-perfect form on two dives to amass 155.8 points, compared to Dillingham's 148.17. Navy's Owen Davies flubbed one dive and wound up third with 145.87 points...
...finals. The Elephants Bill Shoeberlein and Sid Tyler faced each other in the 147 pound class, and Noel Scullion and Pete Saurian met in the 177 pound competition. Frank Lombardi at 137 pounds, and Whitey Black, in the unlimited division, both pinned their men, to make it a perfect evening for the Elephants...
...socked in and his instruments out of order, he had to make his landing with the help of GCA (Ground Controlled Approach), the radar landing system. By voice radio, the operator on the field furnished Pilot Hill with simple verbal instructions, and Hill brought his plane in for a perfect landing-even though the field was so fogbound that a jeep sent out to lead him to a hangar was unable to find...
...West, Joachim's influence appeared at the extremes of two seemingly opposite movements. The most radical of the English Puritans thought that they could found on earth a "communion of saints" which would take over and perfect temporal government. The vigor of Renaissance humanism created in some minds other delusions about men like gods and another kind of confusion about heaven and earth. Example: Pope Leo X's "Let us enjoy the Papacy which God has given...