Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yale News reporter cornered Big Bill Tilden last week and asked him for an interview. Mr. Tilden must have been pretty hard up for ideas because he made some amazing statements. "Yale," he declared, "is my favorite college because it is the perfect balance between the 'rah-rah' over-grown prep-school attitude of Princeton and the pseudo, 'to-hell-with-everything' attitude of Harvard." Having gotten off to a rousing start, he reached a dramatic climax with the statement, "Right now I would be willing to bet that Lawrenceville could beat Yale. Harvard, or Princeton in tennis. This...
...Instead of a frame and body the whole steel-trussed body is the frame. The steering wheel is almost perpendicular to the floor. The driver steers as he would a motorboat, with his hands instead of his arms. But, most startling of all, the job is as close to perfect streamlining as is practical without mounting the engine in the rear...
...left the following note for Roger Spencer: "Don't get a swelled head and think you are a god because I am dying on account of you, because I assure you that you will never, never find anyone that cared for you as I did. . . . I have a perfect radio voice. Also I have an offer to pose for hosiery and lingerie, so you see I am not such a worthless creature. Everyone says I am a fool for loving a little insignificant elevator boy, but it just happens that you are a god of my universe...
...have religiously read the perfect newsmagazine since the memorable presidential campaign of the Brown Derby whom you caused me to love, and have been for two seasons a usually rapt and rarely disappointed listener-in on the "March of TIME" which IS the best of informative radio broadcasts...
...Oxenham believes himself to be the world's first blind golfer. He is mistaken A Canadian newsman nameo Harris Turner, also blinded in the War, has been golfing for eleven years. Most famed player lacking perfect vision is one-eyed Tommy Armour, another War victim, who won British and U. S. Open championships. A close match might be played between Dr Oxenham and Thomas Mc-Aulitfe, Buffalo, N. Y. newshawk who has no arms. He clinches his club between cheek and shoulder, scores in the high...