Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would have realized that the fame of his son, Two Guns White Calf, was even greater. Two Guns was but a papoose when his father was scalping his neighbors. Because of his father's friendship with the Government, Two Guns was educated at Fort Shaw Indian School, learned perfect English. Later he found it paid better to pretend ignorance of the language and go around with an interpreter. Two Guns made friends with James Jerome Hill's son Louis, now director of Great Northern. The grateful Great Northern hired Two Guns, along with such of his compatriots...
...Eskimo, with Concomitant Hypertrophy of the Frontal Sinuses." For all that, the photography is superb, the selection of scenes is accurate, and a coherent picture, a beautiful picture, is presented. A particularly good bit is a whale chase, in which a whalebone whale is successfully harpooned and killed; another perfect shot is the simple, graytoned, opening scene. But many more like these might be mentioned. Never is the hunting, wild-nature aspect so overemphasis as to emerge into the usual naturefaker travelogue; always it fits quietly and briefly, nicely timed. The picture as a whole accomplished two things which...
...here in Boston that ether was first employed. The value of that anesthetic needs no comment; the horror of centuries of surgical misery is as great a testament of its worth as the pain it saves the patient today. Yet ether is by no means a perfect anesthetic. Its after effects are notorious, and it must be administered with extraordinary care. Nausea, even heart-failure, follow its use, and the awakening of the anesthetized strongly resembles the writhings of a drunk...
...spite of the high standard of living and undeniably high costs of the process inaugurated by the House Plan, one vital cog in the works has never functioned with perfect precision. The weighty problem of meals has not been satisfactorily solved by the introduction of model kitchens and natty dining halls, and in spite of a dietician the three squares are generally of an order which would do credit to the lower carnivora. Not a meal but is dominated by the flesh-pots, the quantity of animal products far exceeding the two ounces recommended by the Hygiene department. The vegetable...
...occasion with gusto. There were receptions and banquets. Young men's marching clubs and army reservists tramped through the streets of Tokyo with lanterns. Cried Foreign Minister Koki Hirota: ''Today's happy event was brought about by the will of Heaven and is in perfect accord with the wish of the people...