Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lenin's or Mussolini's he has highly resolved that Australia shall reverse her unfavorable trade balance, cut down her spending and resultant borrowing abroad, and rescue the Australian worker from unemployment by forcing the creation of new home industries. Australians shall raise birdseed, crush peanuts into butter, perfect their imitations of Champagne, build snorting locomotives, and jump homemade Stump Jump Plows...
...Bremen pilots. Now their own fuel was running low. No chance of making New York nonstop, or even U. S. soil. They must be somewhere near Harbor Grace Newfoundland, but how see the airport through such a fog? Then came a rift. The plane dived through it to a perfect landing at Harbor Grace. Thus last week after 31 trying hours, the Fokker Southern Cross, already famed for its flight from California to Australia (TIME June 18 1928) from Australia to England, became the second to make a nonstop flight westward across the Atlantic and land on North American soil...
...reader's vocabulary must contain the words spoken him. No one can read from another's lips words he does not know.* Some two dozen lip-readers held a tournament at the conference. But because the lip, like the hand, can be quicker than the eye, none made perfect scores. "Prohibition is a noble experiment" looked like "Prohibition is a local experiment." "Do you prefer long skirts or short ones" looked like "Do you prefer fresh water or salt water." Contest winner was Evelyn A. Parry of Manhattan...
...reflected from two samples of the same cloth placed in the machine, passes into the cell, gives an electrical impulse which is indicated by a galvanometre. The indicator hand is then set at zero, the unknown sample is introduced. If the hand again points to zero the match is perfect. If it varies to the right the second sample is too dark, to the left, too light. A variation of three calibrated scale divisions is considered a passable commercial match...
...assume that the rate structure in this bill is perfect but I am convinced the disposal of the whole question is urgent . . . the bill gives protection to agriculture and to several industries. . . . With returning normal conditions our foreign trade will continue to expand...