Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bermuda samples of Australian wines were stacked ready to be rushed to Manhattan. There are no Australian vintage years because, Australians eagerly explain, "the weather is so perfect that every year is the same." Anxious not to offend the King's subjects down under, the Encyclopædia Britannica puts Australian wines in their place with a maximum of tact: "The plentiful supply of cheap grape brandy makes it possible for Australia to send to England ever increasingly large quantities of fortified wines [i. e. dosed with brandy], wines which being rich in natural grape sweetness...
...Secondly," Dr. Kotschnig pointed out, "the Weimar Constitution was as nearly perfect as any outline of government has ever been, but it was utterly unfitted to the German nation. The idea of democracy never caught the German imagination...
...Peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep. . . . Make you perfect in every good work to do His will . . . through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever, Amen...
...game had hardly started when "Beany" Johnson, Army quarterback, caught a punt on his 18-yd. line and, with perfect interference, dashed along an 82-yd. highway to Navy's goal. The try for point failed. Before the period was over, Navy Halfbacks "Red" Baumberger and "Buzz" Berries started at midfield, had the ball over the line in three swift plays. Then, in his single play of the game, Dick Bull ran in and kicked the extra point...
...conservative; but for God's sake go out and experiment with your theories and test your convictions. By arguing what is right or wrong you never get anywhere. Theoretical ethics is the bank. There is no right or wrong in international law. I can prove that Japan had a perfect right to do into Manchuria, in spite of the fact that it was entirely wrong from China's point of view...