Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...done." Albert Spalding was not surprised. Efrem Zimbalist had known, had gladly kept the secret all along. Said he: "The violin repertory has been wonderfully enriched by these compositions, and as Kreisler did not think it advisable to say they were his when he wrote them, he had a perfect right to attribute them to any one he pleased. Any composer, living or dead, should be proud to claim them...
...from Hanover, showing that the present system was not by any means perfect, but had no inherent defects, maintained that it could be remedied by a thorough public health program of education and legislation, which would not destroy the personal and adventurous element in the medical profession that had brought it to its present high standing...
...local Soviets. These elect higher Soviets which vote similarly by show of hands clear up through the All-Union Congress of Soviets (see above). Since in Russia it takes uncommon courage to get up in meeting and oppose the Communist Party, Comrade Lenin considered his system almost perfect. To make it utterly perfect he wrote into the Soviet Constitution that the vote of one presumably radical "proletarian" or factory worker shall equal the votes of five presumably reactionary Russian peasants, thus assuring the so-called "Dictatorship of the Proletariat." It was time, Dictator Stalin felt last week, to change...
...working on his own. He formed a vague sort of company, the Association Internationale Africaine, and employed Explorer Stanley to work for it. He tricked France into recognizing the rights of this company in the Congo and he persuaded the U. S. that a private company had a perfect right to buy territory from the natives. The early work was done behind a screen of humanitarian phrases about suppressing the slave trade and taking the Bible to the Congo, but Leopold, the exploiter, eventually merged. Leopold guarded his health, ate well, drank large quantities of hot water, hated his wife...
...principal characters in a news story, if allowed to behave naturally, are perfect cinemactors and usually willing ones...