Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...magazine for future reference. Finally when my husband and mother-in-law were having their own race as to who was to get TIME first, I ... put my TIME-reading day over to the following Monday so they would have an even break to discover the perfect newsweekly. Needless to say the other two magazines mentioned came no more. . . . MRS. JOHN RODERICK PIERCE...
...goal toward which Harvard has been moving is yet far in the distance. The purpose is still not generally understood, the machinery erected to effect it is ill-adjusted and insufficient. After today the burden of carrying Harvard College along the path to perfect education will be that of James Bryant Conant...
...them, Gua used hers only for play. She preferred to proceed by hanging on to Professor Kellogg's trousers, walking between his legs. When Donald tried to imitate her in this form of walking, he, being taller, kept bumping his father behind. Gua, while walking thus, kept perfect step with Professor Kellogg, unless he went too fast. In that case she would make skipping hops until in step again...
Four years ago when Conductor Nikolai Sokoloff bought a farm in Weston, Conn., he thought he had found a perfect place for resting after strenuous winters with the Cleveland Orchestra. Next winter Sokoloff will not be conducting in Cleveland's imposing new Severance Hall (TIME, Feb. 16, 1931). Nor will his Connecticut farm be an undisturbed haven this summer. Italian laborers were jabbering all over the grounds one afternoon last week. Sokoloff shed his coat, pushed his hat on the back of his head and mounted a tractor. Guests who dropped in for cocktails were set to work...
...over-estimator of the 18th Century, he says: "When I hear anyone say, with defiant emphasis, that Pope was a poet, I suspect him of calling in ambiguity of language to promote confusion of thought." Most poetical of all poets, he thinks, was William Blake. As an example of "perfect poetry" he quotes a stanza from Samuel Daniel...