Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beach was so rough that on several occasions I thought I was gone. ... I am not easily frightened but if I had not had perfect confidence in my car I could not have completed the attempt. . . . Throughout the run each way I was bucking about like a pea in a pod. . . . The mist obscured my view and dimmed my windscreen. ... I favored my left hand a bit. the hand wrapped to the elbow with elastic bandages. ... I am not at all happy about it. Frankly, there is no reason why I should be. My car has a potential speed...
...Under perfect skiing conditions, the Harvard Mountaineering Club yesterday held speed trials over the one-and-one-half-mile course down the Tuckerman Ravine Trail on the side of Mount Washington in order to pick four men to enter the Eastern Amateur Downhill Championships on Mount Moosilauke, N. H. on Saturday, March 12. With a turnout of 35 men, C. E. Angle '33, R. H. Hallowell '33, H. B. Washburn '33, and J. U. White '34 qualified. Honry Chauncey '27, Assistant Dean of Harvard College, was the chief official, and the affair was organized by Washburn, president of the Club...
Among the eight tons of findings which W. E. Schevill '27, assistant curator at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, has brought back with him from Australia, there has been discovered the largest and most nearly perfect specimen of a plesiosaur ever found in Australia. It is about two-thirds complete, and so makes possible for the first time an accurate reconstruction of the giant marine reptile of 120,000,000 years...
...particular, Dr. Kuhn pointed to one volume, in the first exhibition case, which was a well-nigh perfect imitation not only of the manuscript writing and illumination but also of the binding. It would be impossible for the casual observer to distinguish it from the genuine article: the binding was of old, dried leather, the clasp of tarnished brass, and the pages of real-looking vellum...
...Government's most important sources of revenue, Handsome Adolf promised Government assistance to the motor industry, postulated: "The railway is too impersonal in that it restricts individual freedom. Today the automobile and the airplane [invariably used by Herr Hitler in preference to trains] constitute the most perfect instruments of transportation...