Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Junior Fellow J. C. Oxtoby has developed a new method which makes it necessary to stir one's coffee only once in order to obtain perfect mixing of the coffee with the cream. The mathematics by which he arrives at his new development is too complicated to go into here...
Here is a perfect example of the kind of thing that drives competent educational authorities toward nervous breakdowns. On the one hand, a basic reality of education is recognized as needing more attention, and that attention is given it. On the other, an institution purporting to train teachers acts on the assumption that the primary tasks of education have been conquered so effectively that the profession may now be indulged in recreational side issues...
From a high-school civics book: "Dictatorship . . . makes much of national unity. . . . Convicts doing the lockstep in a prison yard are a perfect example of unity, but we do not envy them. . . . Hitler and Mussolini . . . talk much of the virtues which fascism fosters. . . . But fascism has no monopoly of courage and sacrifice...
YOUR SOLUTION MAN OF YEAR PROBLEM IS PERFECT [TIME...
Like Henry James, the greatest of them, many U. S. expatriate writers have come to troubled old age, have shown uneasy consciences over their expatriation. But not Logan Pearsall Smith. Now 73, a lanky, aristocratic, pink-cheeked bachelor who has been called the most perfect living British mandarin, he has contentedly lived 50 years in France and England. His autobiography, Unforgotten Years (Little, Brown, $2.50), is witness that he finds in England a happiness as poised and honeyed as his perfected prose (in Trivia, Reperusals and Recollections...