Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Four days previously the members of the Power Conference were invited behind a board fence next to a garage on the grounds of the Smithsonian Institution, there to see a solar engine which Secretary Charles G. Abbott, of the Institution, perfected to a point where it could produce power as cheaply as coal at $3 a ton. Unfortunately the engine "burnt out a bearing" an hour or two before the visitors arrived. President Gano Dunn of J. G. White Engineering Corp. pointed out to them that if the surface of the lake behind Boulder Dam were covered with such engines...
...London Naval Treaty. In plain words this meant that because Adolf Hitler has torn up the Treaty of Versailles and is building Germany a forbidden navy, Stanley Baldwin has torn up the limitations on British naval building in the London Treaty. Unlike Herr Hitler, Mr. Baldwin has a perfect right to do this, as have President Roosevelt and Emperor Hirohito, for the Treaty provides that any signatory may take the imaginary "escalator" up to greater sea armaments upon giving due notice. Last week Japan in her bold reply similarly climbed aboard the escalator, announced that she is enlarging her submarine...
...terrifying beards. As a matter of fact, "The Father of Anarchism," the late great Pierre-Joseph Proudhon who died in 1865 had only a "Newgate Frill" (fringe of whiskers) around his placid countenance. The last of the internationally great Anarchist thinkers, Russian Prince Peter Kropotkin, who was the perfect prototype of "Bearded Anarchist", expired peacefully near Moscow in 1921. Not international thinkers but intensely local Barcelona doers by "direct action" are Newshawk Duranty's new news subjects. Anarchist Durruti goes so far as to scoff contemptuously at the Spanish Government, friendly though it is to Barcelona, charging that...
This system was also probably the first step toward the introduction of the percentage method of marking into America. Under Quincy, the perfect recitation or examination scored eight points. The marks for all the recitations and examinations of a student were added together each year, and if at the end of the Senior year he had a sufficient point "aggregate" he graduated...
...idolized that Zinoviev's secretary, rather than kill Stalin, killed himself; so lucky that every plot against him failed; and finally so wise that a whole boxful of Bolsheviks intent on killing him did not try to justify themselves by uttering one critical or abusive word against the Perfect Dictator...