Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hope that in the near future some action may be taken to remedy these slight defects in an otherwise perfect building. Very sincerely yours, Kennedy R. Ludlam '33. Beekman W. Altken '3L. Paul J. Christoph...
...White Plains, N. Y., David Cornell was playing penny ante poker, filled an inside royal flush (perfect poker hand: ace, king, queen, jack, ten of the same suit). His hand trembled, his opponents dropped out, he won 37?. Unnerved, he went home, was stricken with acute indigestion. Doctor's bill...
...looks like a winged canoe built close to the ground, but is sturdily braced against the novice's "pancake" landings. It is of the "pusher" type (a rarity in modern landplanes) with the engine mounted atop the wing and abaft, out of harm's way, and allowing perfect forward visibility...
...regretfully, said they had had a great many famous people at Balliol but would have to draw the line somewhere. The president of Magdalen shook hands warmly, said he would be delighted, assured Mrs. Besant her ward would be able to mingle with the other undergraduates on terms of perfect equality. Krishnamurti went, however, to no college, was privately tutored in London...
...lives, the most important thing we can do is to cultivate the tool that we must work with, that is, out minds," President Lowell went on to say. "To be successful in life, we must have an excellent tool, our brain; and to perfect this brain we must educate it. And by education I do not mean coming to college for four years, for the college cannot educate us. A man must self educate himself. A school or college may drill facts into a student's mind, but what good will that do? All education is self education...