Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shaws traveled. Around the world she dodged reporters, lost herself in crowds, collected clippings about her husband. Afterwards she told a reporter: "When I get really old I should like to live in New Zealand. It's a perfect country where the people have no art at all and therefore no artistic inhibitions...
...Bath and Wells is one of Britain's oldest sees (founded 909), has one of the country's most perfect cathedrals. The Bishop's Palace is famous for its bastioned wall and a moat where the swans tug at the drawbridge rope as a hint that they want...
...even a gag-loving nation between the eyes. Gags are too brassy, fleeting, unvisual. The true clown or jester tops the gag man by being both a richly eccentric character and a vividly expressive type-Chaplin is The Little Man, Durante The Wild Man, Ed Wynn The Perfect Fool. Hope has no eccentric character; but by giving his gags dramatic value he made himself a type-the dumb wise guy, the quaking braggart, the lavish tightwad. But this type somehow dissolves into a far broader and more significant one-thanks to his vibrant averageness, Hope is any healthy, cocky, capering...
...when he was four, got his elementary education in Vancouver schools. He made a brilliant record at the Universities of British Columbia and California, M.I.T. and Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study (TIME, Aug. 9), was recommended to Smith by a Chinese physicist, Miss Chien Shiung Wu. In perfect English, Kusaka declared his opposition to the Emperor of Japan but, as shy as he was able, preferred not to enter the controversy. The staid Springfield Republican, said: "Come, let us be reasonable. The protest was . . . injudicious. . . .Tolerance . . . will do no harm...
...certainty about college football this fall is its uncertainty. A surprising number of last year's pushovers have become powerhouses; many a former powerhouse will be a pushover. Few teams, good or bad, can hope to keep intact for the whole season; many teams, with no time to perfect systems, will gamble on tricky offensives. Almost anything can happen on the nation's college gridirons this fall-and the Army will get blamed for much...