Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that case there would be no alternative but civil war for England. With as much tearfulness as an English squire of the old school can manage, he implores them to stick to democracy and the English way of government, which he obviously thinks is the most nearly perfect system ever devised by the mind...
This modern miracle play is the conversion of a sensitive middle-aged man John Loving, back to the Catholic form of Christianity through a perfect marriage. John is one of the "modern temper" group of twentieth century intellectuals who has run the gamut of atheism, socialism, and Bolshevism. That love and marriage had been abolished in the latter state and that schoolboys were throwing spitballs at Almighty God delighted this iconoclast. But it is the religion of love as symbolized and poetized in Christian dogma that brings him to conversion. Religion supplied the necessary ideal meaning of his earthly...
...eminence on a dead volcano he could see all Managua lying flat under a pale moon, its two-story houses and paved streets dark and quiet. There was not a U. S. Marine in the place. Across the lake a pink plume of smoke rose from Mount Momotombo, most perfect of the volcanoes Sandino and his countrymen reverence as their national emblem. Farther north; 100 mi. through the jungle, was the peacetime residue of his followers, sleeping among the farms and mines of his El Cooperative Rio Coco settlement. When the car reached the main palace gate, it was stopped...
With 45 inches of snow and the temperature six below zero, the conditions should be perfect for the skiing meet to be held on Sunday on the Taft Trail in Franconia, New Hampshire. Harvard will send a team consisting of Herbert S. Sise '34, Andrew Marshall, Jr. '34, Andrew E. Ritchie, Jr. '34, John U. White '34, and Edward O. Davis, Jr. '34, and will compete against other local teams...
...weather forecast for the weekend is cloudy and warmer today, rain or snow Saturday, and clear and colder Sunday. Such conditions guarantee practically perfect skiing in the northern regions...