Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sour milk. Science, with all its starry array of meat-choppers, lemon-peelers, and assembly lines for manufacturing potatoes an gratin, had no way to tell of the fallibility of the bovine world till the crescendo of sensitive student's protest reached a revolutionary shout. A system so mechanically perfect, yet so hard and insensitive to the demands of the taste buds, has lived too long with the muse of science, and needs a bit of rejuvenation along more humane lines. Harvard's great lack today is an official taster...
...eugenist would probably say that the Son of Heaven is in flesh & blood more of a Fujiwara than anything else. Against the great and almost divine Prince Konoye it was unthinkable to most Japanese last week that the Army could stand. Yet the Prince is democratic, seemingly a perfect ace up Old Saionji's sleeve...
RUSSIAN SOMERSAULT - Igor Schwezoff -Harper ($3.50). The head of a ballet school in Amsterdam tells of his life in Russia during the Revolution and after. Son of an English-Russian mother and a German-Russian father, Dancer Schwezoff had to perfect his plies between visits from the police. Written with little art, Russian Somersault won the $5,000 Hoder & Stoughton autobiography prize in England...
...Modern cycles have two-wheel brakes. They can stop on a dime. With a gear shift, they can travel as slowly as 4 miles an hour and still have perfect control. This permits safe riding in a crowd...
...love stage is treated with all the seriousness it deserves and when Andrew falls from grace at the rather tender age of 16 he is orientated by his father and helped rather than hurt. This close understanding of father and son is present throughout the volume in almost too perfect harmony, but Marks appears to be looking back and seeing how the situation should have been...