Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...warmed up, was flipping the prop over slowly. The ship trembled in its wheel chocks. He opened up the motor to recheck the steady drone of power that was to carry him to Boston. Mechanically everything was fine. The ship had had its regular inspection the night before. A perfect trip depended solely on the pilot himself. Mechanics hauled away the chocks. Pridham taxied to the end of the field, roared down the takeoff strip and was off in the fast increasing light-for his last trip. One hour later, by the dawn's early light, he was approaching...
...speed it was clear that she was nervous. Once she slipped, brushed the ice with her fingertips, caught her balance, smiled and flushed, and after that she was at ease. Her whirls, waltzes, glides and rockers, executed to such tunes as "Over the Waves" and "The Skaters" were technically perfect and filled with joy and grace. As expected, she won the world's figure skating championship for ladies for the fourth time, and then skated an exhibition with Karl Schaefer of Vienna who, as far superior to his competitors as she to hers, had won the men's championship. Said...
...weeks. The Earl of Northesk (of Vanities Jessica Brown fame) and Count de Janze were later also-rans. Someone, said to be prominent in the automobile business, lately gave her the very biggest diamond she could find at Black, Starr & Frost's?a 127-carat stone called the largest perfect diamond in the world...
Play started with a rush. The Cadet first string line, Wing, Brandt, and Haskell, skillfully managing the strange ponles, showed perfect team work in outscoring the Harvard riders, 9 to 1 1-2 in the first three chukkers. Each of the Soldiers scored three goals. The Crimson players were unable to make headway, although the line-up of Crispin Cooke '32, E. K. Jenkins '31, and W. F. Luton '32 was stronger than that of the previous game...
...runners, slipped as he was passing the baton to his anchor Tuttle, who dropped the stick. It seemed, however, to the more critical among the spectators in the thinly populated Arena that the race would have borne a Crimson tinge even if Engle had made a perfect pass, for Vernon Munroe Jr. '31 ran his quarter in under 50 seconds...