Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jespersen devised a synthetic language, Novial, worked with the International Auxiliary Language Association sponsored by U.S. lawyer-diplomat Dave Hennen Morris and Mrs. Morris. Object: to develop, propagate the perfect "inter-language." Wrote Jespersen...
...reasonable prices") and the Ritz and Claridge's ("favorite places just now . . . for the fashionable world"). And the races at Auteuil-75,000 people were there for "the 'Grand Steeple-Chase du Printemps,'* with a purse of 600,000 francs. ... It turned out to be a perfect day. . . . Fine enough for the Parisienne to wear her best...
...plain riles us. For if, as heaven forbid. TIME should ever acquire the sort of phony "efficiency" I've talked about, I can think of only one group who would like it-the teletypesetter operators! They would never have any corrections to make once the first and only Perfect Story...
...improve those relations? Was it fair and honest to present such a distortion of momentous events to the U.S. people as final truth? In unusual accord, critics, historians, columnists answered "No." Only all-out praise came from Communists. The New Masses thought it "just about a perfect film . . . [which] strips away the veils of illusions and lies." Daily Worker Columnist Mike Gold found it "about the best propaganda picture I've ever seen . . . patriotic, fearless...
...other side of the Stadium, and look across Boylston Street. More land, this time lacrosse fields, soccer fields and just plain fields, all as level as an ironing board and with perfect drainage...