Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...history's most heroic acts . . . an act of perfect courage" was what President Theodore Roosevelt called it when, during target practice off Pensacola in 1904, Chief Gunner's Mate Mons Monssen of the battleship Missouri* crawled into the magazine after an explosion had already killed 29 men and injured five, and with bare hands beat out a fire which would have killed 600 more had it reached the powder room. Mate Monssen got a Congressional Medal. In 1925 he retired, a lieutenant. In 1930 he died. This spring the Navy Department notified Hero Monssen's widow that...
Last week, after ten years of backing and inventing, the partners demonstrated their perfected Semagraph in the Manhattan offices of the Associated Press. Seated at an electrically driven typewriter, a girl clicked out a story. The typewriter's type bars carried coded combinations of dots under each character and the "copy" showed these dots. As each page was completed, Inventor Green lovingly inserted it into a Semagraph transmitter. Simultaneously, in the composing room of the Charlotte Observer 611 miles away, a telegraph printer reproduced the copy exactly. This copy, in turn, was fitted into the slots of a Semagraph...
...farming weather has been so perfect this spring that even green telephone poles around Franklin. Neb., last week sprouted leafy branches. A more alarming manifestation of fertility are bumper crops impending in almost every State. With farm prices already 20% under last year, not since 1932 has the outlook for the U. S. farmer seemed more ominous. Hence, when Washington newshawks waited one afternoon last week for the Department of Agriculture's definitive June 1 estimate of 1938 crops, commodity exchanges all over the U. S. were jittery. The figures that correspondents relayed to their home offices were...
Rowing at number five oar in John Gardiner who has held down this position on the Varsity for two years. A perfect stylist, Gardiner rates with the captain as one of the country's best oarsmen. Walt Kernan, a burly Sophomore, at the number four side, succeeds his brother Reg at the job and what he lacks in form he makes up in power. Although experienced at number six on his Freshman crew, he has a tendency to lean out to port...
...Most spectacular of the bunch, a near-genius creation of canniness, stupidity, bombast and lust, is the half-articulate Rumanian Jew, Grain-broker Henri Leon, whose "deposit technique" marks the perfect blend of speculation and double-crossing. When Leon has a love affair with a smart Hollywood adventuress, he incorporates the partnership as the Margaret Trust, of which he holds 49% of the shares...