Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...detailed bas-reliefs and sculptured towers. The central buildings of Angkor Wat, a mile square, rising almost as high as the tower of Notre Dame in Paris and built about the same time, he decided must be one of the loveliest pieces of architecture in the world, the most perfect building, except for Christopher Wren's Greenwich Hospital, that he had ever seen...
...overwhelming U. S. urge to go places fast, the idea of speed governors for automobiles has made no progress. Even if it did, it would do little good, for only 9% of all accidents are directly attributable to speeds of 50 m.p.h. or more. Structurally, the automobile is nearly perfect, only 5% of accidents arising from mechanical failure. This leaves only highway improvement as a real means to traffic safety...
...Charles Holmes's thoughts turned to "Hen Opp,'" who had helped finance the Underground, was called "Father of the London Subway." In his memoirs published fortnight ago* Sir Charles recalled how "Hen Opp" quickly arranged to store in "the unused station in the Strand . . . a perfect subterranean fortress . . . some 900 of our best pictures, with selected works from great private collections." Generous to the last in loaning drawings from his own collection, "Hen Opp" died in 1932. Proceeds of last week's sale, occasioned by the death of Oppenheimer's widow, are estimated to be twice...
...week Dr. Cannon published a thin volume called The Science of Hypnotism.* Since the author is a capable practitioner of hypnotism and uses it every day on London's sane and insane, U. S. psychiatrists were professionally interested, regardless of what they thought of his divagations into yogism, perfect numbers, symbolism of colors. Dr. Cannon discusses not only his own methods but those of such pioneers as Mesmer and Charcot, of such well-known hypnotists as Bernheim, Binet, Féré, Liebeault, Lloyd Tuckey. It is generally agreed among psychiatrists that hypnotism is of value in treating stammering...
Philadelphia's $36,000 Cèzanne was a Pennsylvania echo of a world-wide interest in the strange recluse who did not perfect his art until he was 50, was still generally unknown at 60. This year the largest collection of Cèzanne's work yet held was drawing crowds to the Musee de L'Orangerie in Paris. Here $2,000,000 worth of Cèzannes were gathered. Top price paid the artist in his lifetime was only a few hundred dollars...