Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Maine (TIME, July 23), Dr. William Ferdinand Petersen of the University of Illinois analyzed the seasonal trend on Chicago conceptions and last week, in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, was able to state that almost every Chicago baby conceived in calm July, August and September was born perfect. But babies conceived in stormy March and April showed an abnormal percentage of abnormalities-imperfect spines, cleft palates, club feet...
...days later however, another attempt in order to get photographs was made, this time with Holcombe also on the Washburn Carter rope. The summit was reached again, but this time in the most perfect weather conditions and many pictures were taken...
Today as never before the individual is prey to ever-changing currents of opinion. Modern methods of communication bring to the loneliest dwelling the latest dicta of statesmen. How is the average uneducated citizen to distinguish between the truth and demagoguery? The perfect case in point is that of Germany, where millions literally bow down before the emotional appeals of as fanatical a leader as ever ruled a nation. The hope of western civilization lies in those countries which have succeeded in keeping lighted the lamp of truth, and the hope of those countries lies in their institutions of learning...
...Phelpses were saved. "Govvie" jumped off the stern, found a dangling rope, clung to it for six hours. Said he afterward: "I had to watch women I'd met and danced with drop off one by one and hear their desperate and familiar voices pleading. Finally there was a perfect rain of people. A hundred or more came leaping over the side to escape a sudden burst of flames. They hit one another in the descent. Many sank like stones...
...Wilhelm II's costliest whimsies as Kaiser and All Highest was to have the regalia of the Holy Roman Empire exactly duplicated in authentic jewels and precious metals. So perfect are these copies that only experts can distinguish them from the originals. Last week they were brought solemnly to Nuremberg and mysteriously displayed at the sixth annual National Socialist Party Congress...