Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...party arrived in the middle of the afternoon on a day when three tarpon had been caught at Port Isabel and none at Port Aransas-when weather conditions along the entire coast were unfavorable. But, by the following morning the water was in perfect shape and tarpon were there for the catching. President Roosevelt, however, sailed away at the break of day without making any effort to catch a tarpon, probably steered northward again by the Port Aransas guide who accompanied him South...
...electrical blind spots; the water was 2½ miles deep below them; their floe was drifting away from the Pole five miles each day, had already moved some 60 miles. Exciting event: someone spotted a guillemot, black-&-white seabird heretofore unknown so far north. Finally, with the base in perfect running order, the four planes took off together for the return to Rudolf Island 560 miles away. At the Pole for a year, they left four scientists and a dog. Since the gasoline supply was short, one of the planes sacrificed half its tankage for the others, came down halfway...
Elected captain of Princeton University's golf team was Fumitaka Konoye, 22, class of 1938, son of Japan's new Premier, Prince Fumimaro Konoye. Short, stocky, usually laughing, Son Konoye is golf champion of Princeton, speaks perfect English (including slang). Next to golf his best sports are boxing and riding. He is majoring in politics, also likes Spanish, music, psychology. Proposed career: Diplomacy. His room in Pyne Hall, where he lives with Stuart Aitkin of Bala, Pa., is plastered with cartoons from Esquire...
...blandly announced the unanimous election of Steelman Girdler, whose Chicago plant was within a few hours to be steel's bloody ground for the week. One of the two vice-presidencies went to Mr. Irvin, the other to Mr. Weir, who later greeted the banqueting steelmen with a perfect Fascist salute. It was a sweet, though probably hollow, victory for the embattled independents, for it meant that the Institute still stood for a last-ditch fight for the Open Shop...
...percent north, which would be added to the mark he gave. Similarly, if any easy marker gave it 32 per cent, he would have a handicap of 5 per cent south, which would be subtracted from the mark he gave. This would remove the last obstacle to a perfect system of grading--varying degrees of strictness in marking