Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sort of mystery play to end all mystery plays, it relates the adventures of a detective fictioneer who unexpectedly becomes embroiled with a gang of criminals. A fabricator of "more drugs for the drug stores," Actor Truex boasts to his burly acquaintances that he knows how to commit the perfect crime. His method is to secrete poison in the victim's toothpaste. Thereupon the criminals make Mr. Truex test his notion on a stool pigeon...
...course they would pusue, were the country placed entirely in their hands. Blandly ignoring the human equation, they graphically describe the birth of various abortive Utopias, most of which are by the Russian Revolution out of the American Constitution. They modestly admit that the child may not be perfect, but nevertheless compare it to the existing regime with a complacent smile...
...mental welfare of the undergraduate body. At that time it first provided a physician who could be summoned to students' rooms, much to the dismay of the medical profession in Cambridge. In 1901 James Alexander Stillman '96 gave the present infirmary, stipulating only that "it should be made as perfect as was possible." In the succeeding years the medical staff was increased, an operating room was installed in Stillman, six years ago the services of a surgeon were acquired; eye, skin, and dental clinics have been instituted; corrective exercise work has been taken up; and this year the University...
...Consul General Myrl S. Myers drive up to the station. Out stepped a slender, well-dressed U. S. citizen. He showed a U. S. diplomatic passport proclaiming him to be Culver Bryant Chamberlain, newly appointed U. S. Consul at Harbin. Because he speaks no Japanese, speaks perfect Chinese, knows that most Japanese know a little Chinese, Consul Chamberlain addressed the Japanese sentry in Chinese, promptly received a blow in the face...
...bruises. More proud than thankful, Adolph Kanter said he had saved himself by clinging to the cushion of his car, wrote an ode about his feat: Here I am, the miracle man, The one that flies in a Chrysler car; Lindy hopped over the ocean, Made a perfect landing in France; So did I make a perfect landing Over a Viaduct fence. I dropped seventy-five feet with a Chrysler car Yet I did not reach so far: I found myself in Knickerbocker Hospital; The only cheers I could hear Was one nurse asking the other, "Is he alive, dear...