Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What this country needs is a counter-falter and murderer, a perfect criminal, secret, unscrupulous, ruthless, yet with high moral purpose. Given this un-catchable, unknown Robin Hood, America's problems of recovery, reform, and revolution would be solved...
First this perfect criminal, being supremely intelligent would murder all the dangerous politicians. To do this without public suspicions will be very difficult, but hardly impossible for one such as we have described. Even should it be gossipped that the many deaths were unnatural, other dangerous figures might find it desirable to retire...
This is no mere unpractical philosophy. It is America's hope. Large body-guards bear mute witness to the possibility of the first part. As for the counterfeiting, criminals have recently developed the art to an almost perfect degree. Several dies were found for producing fifty cent pieces only recently. Perhaps crime will make its last beautiful gesture to us before it is obliterated from this country forever...
...Freshmen have maintained a perfect record and have downed all their six opponents easily...
Tradition has been maintained so far this year and there seems little reason to suspect that it will be overturned tonight. Both teams are in perfect physical condition except for Dick Dow and both have outplayed the other...