Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief Justice Hughes, voting with and speaking for the minority, declared: "I am not persuaded. . . . The power committed to Congress to govern interstate commerce does not require that its government should be wise, much less that it should be perfect. The power implies a broad discretion and thus permits a wide range even of mistakes...
...Avowed purpose of the Good-Will Union, founded twelve years ago by Rev. Edward Lawrence Hunt, a onetime Presbyterian minister and "100% American," is ''To form a more perfect union." Widow of a Manhattan realtor, Mrs. Tubman met Widower Hunt four years ago, now collaborates with him in patrioteering. Boast they: "There never is an occasion we don't celebrate...
...crew for its first race with Yale had taught Rev. Samuel Calthrop how smoothly a racing shell slips through water. He knew that the chief resistance to a railway train at high speed was the atmosphere. Rev. Calthrop took pencil & paper, invented an "Air-Resisting Train" that was a perfect conception of aerodynamic streamlining. That was in 1865, and the "Air-Resisting Train" never got any further than the U. S. Patent Office. Like most basic inventions, it earned its owner nothing...
...first encounter, Lincoln held Pennsylvania to eight well-scattered hits and was backed by perfect support, while Penn's downfall was due in part to four errors. However, because of Pennsylvania's strong showing against Dartmouth, the league leader, and Yale, the Crimson expects stout opposition...
...established the first salt works in New London. He and his uncle were the first colonials to experiment with indigo manufacture. He started the American munitions industry in 1642 when he got an act through the General Court of Massachusetts ordering the production of such materials "as will perfect the making of gunpowder, the instrumental means that all nations lay hould on for their preservation. . . . Every plantation within the colony shall erect a house in length about 20 or 30 foote, and 20 foote wide within one half year next coming ... to make saltpetre from urine of men, beastes, goates...