Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Filatov keeps in cold storage a collection of perfect eyes taken from cadavers or from patients whose eyes had to be enucleated on account of accident or disease...
...from stimulating Oxford's rowing Blues to greater efforts, a dozen defeats dulled their interest in the sport. Last month, while Cantabrigians were trying new and spectacular routines of preparation, such as having each man in the boat row a stroke in turn to perfect coordination, all Oxonian oarsmen could think of was to guzzle milk instead of good strong beer at their training table. The night before the race, to nerve themselves for the ordeal, they consumed a champagne supper...
...three days of agitation in the ballroom, the tournament.ended as table-tennis experts had predicted: Viktor Barna of Budapest, five times world champion, won the men's title. Ruth Hughes Aarons won the women's. Together they took the mixed doubles title and, to make her performance perfect, Rath Aarons also shared the women's doubles championship. If sleek little Viktor Barna is the Tilden of table tennis, Ruth Hughes Aarons, daughter of a Manhattan theatre manager, shows signs of becoming its Helen Wills Moody. She started to play three years ago when she was 14. Last...
However, Messrs. Grace & Irvin were in perfect harmony on one subject-prospects for the steel industry over the next few months. Having suffered a sharp set-back during the period when Pittsburgh mills were under flood water, the industry last week more than recovered all lost ground, operations rising to 64½% of capacity. Iron Age, amazed by the demand for steel for immediate use. particularly from the auto mobile industry and construction projects in flood areas, predicted still further improvement in the most basic of U. S. industries. In Washington Messrs. Grace & Irvin revealed that their respective companies were...
Since the death of the last Jones president in 1926, J. & L. has had no less than four presidents from outside. Most famed was Tom Mercer Girdler, now head of Republic Steel. It was during Mr. Girdler's term that Aliquippa became known to steelmen as the "perfect company town" and to labor agitators as the "Siberia of America." And it was under Mr. Girdler that J. & L.'s profits reached $20,800,000 in 1929. During Depression the company accumulated nearly $18,000,000 worth of deficits. Even under President Samuel E. Hackett, a master salesman...