Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Democrats have a minority complex which they cannot change. As a faultfinding, caviling minority opposition they are 100% perfect. As a driving, construction majority they are a 100% failure. . . . This much must be stated to their credit; as long as they followed the leadership of the one man in America who has furnished leadership in this great crisis ? Herbert Hoover...
...irreverent or ignorant to praise;" and the portrait he draws is of a man to whom this would apply. He tells of Washington's self-discipline, of how he formulated his own philosophy, which was a sort of combination of stoicism and aristocracy, and accounts for his almost perfect balance and serenity. Professor Morison also describes how Washington learned to handle men, and treats his dignified, manly love for Sally Cary...
...clump of grass in an ugly wilderness of hazards called the Himalayas. He recovered for a par and the Prince of Wales watched him sink a 20-ft. putt for a birdie on the 14th. At the 18th he needed a 4 for a 74. He smashed a perfect drive and asked his caddy, Ernest Daniels, "What club?" Caddy Daniels gave him the No. 3 iron. This last crucial shot was straight and safe. Two careful putts gave Sarazen a 72 hole total of 283, two strokes lower than Bobby Jones's record...
...overtones above the drone of the engines. "Waah-waah-waah" the engines sing. Nervous passengers imagine something is wrong. Seasoned travelers are made drowsy, are often annoyed by the monotonous chant, as by the clickety-clack of train wheels. Airmen know that "beats" occur because the propellers are not perfectly synchronized; that vibrations are harmful to the engines. Unless a pilot has an exceptionally good ear, he can rarely adjust his engines to perfect unison. (A difference of 10 r.p.m. will cause "beats...
...brighter items in the book. R. L. Duffus. Gardner Jackson, Muriel Draper, Gilbert Seldes and a few others contribute articles that would be illuminating anywhere. But, compared to the flickering literary illumination, it is the 140 pictures that shed real light. The 100 artist contributors make an almost perfect score of hits in the great game called "Understanding America." Drawings by Peter Arno, Otto Soglow, other New Yorker artists; photographs by Margaret Bourke-White, Anton Bruehl; paintings by George Bellows, Charles Sheeler, Georgia O'Keefe, Morris Kantor, Charles Burchfield et al. are intermingled with sculptural figures, early American paintings...