Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Residents of the eastern seaboard will have a perfect opportunity tonight to observe a total eclipse of the moon...
Died. Sir Edward Marsh, 80, scholar bachelor, longtime (1896-1937) British civil servant, who became known as "Whitehall's perfect private secretary" for his service to Churchill, Asquith, Joseph Chamberlain and Malcolm MacDonald in London. Falling in with London's literary crowd, "Eddie" Marsh established reputation as conversationalist, first-nighter art collector, translator of the odes of Horace and the fables of La Fontaine, autobiographer (A Number of People) and editor (1912-21) of five volumes of Georgian Poetry. For his service to the -rown and to letters, he was knighted in 1937 by George...
...despite the added strength these two men will give, the varsity is unlikely to preserve its perfect record, nor is it certain that the team will finish with a winning record. Last year, the wrestlers also had a four-and-noting record going into the second half of the season. The Crimson then tied Springfield, and lost consecutively to Brown, Army, Columbia, and Yale...
...serious collector has whole regiments of infantrymen, squadrons of cavalry. Each must be perfect to the last detail: a handsome, 3-in. drummer in Louis XIV's army is done up in the flaming red, orange and white uniform of the period, with every button, every bit of lace exactly in place. France's handful of craftsmen (among them: an old widow, an ex-jockey, a chef) will spend an entire week fashioning the body for such a figure, then modeling the uniform out of tin leaf. It takes 40 delicate soldering operations to make King Louis...
...Crimson ski team came in sixth in the nine college Lyndonville Invitational Intercollegiate meet yesterday. Dartmouth won the two day affair with a point total of 392.65, 400 being perfect, while Middlebury was close behind with 390,02. Vermont, New Hampshire, Williams, and Harvard followed in order, placing ahead of Norwich, Maine, and Colby...