Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wozzeck's plot is surprisingly old to be the perfect counterpart of Berg's ultra-modern score. It was written nearly 100 years ago by Georg Büchner, a German poet-scientist who had ideas far ahead of his time. Büchner died at 23 in Zurich where he earned a doctorate with a treatise on the nervous system of fish. He left three plays: Leonce and Lena, written while authorities were hunting him for his revolutionary sympathies; Danton's Tod, given in the U. S. a few seasons ago by Max Reinhardt...
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...nation's perfect man is John Tempre of Manhattan, chosen from some 300 candidates by the Clothing Designers' Executives' Association. Perfect Man Tempre, selected because of the fortuitous "proportions and postures of his body," is 28.5 ft. 8 in. tall, weighs 138 lb., unmarried. His chest measures 36 in., his sleeves are 17½in. long. Stylists were inspired to design for him a modish, summery tea-dance outfit...
...would institute a back to nature movement for Cambridge. He would lay out, on the territory now occupied, all too unworthily, by the Freshman squash courts, and library, a beautiful memorial park, small, perhaps, but perfect. Cambridge is too encumbered at present with brick and stone. In the years to come the situation will only grow more pressing. Why not substitute a spot of natural beauty, for the Garganiuan pile that has been proposed? The Vagabond can think of no more fitting memorial to the war dead...
...alphabet around their edges. In both sending and receiving sets these discs revolve at the same speed so that the letters are in the same relative positions. When A is struck on the first machine and a radio impulse is released, the receiving set, because of the perfect synchronization of the two, can receive the impulse and send it only to the A typewriter...