Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which was nearly destroyed in Libya, he was photographed by Field Marshal Rommel, a candid camera bug who sometimes popped out of a tank turret to lecture his captives on their tactical errors. Contriving to get himself turned over to Italy rather than Germany, he was treated "almost with perfect courtesy." But when the Germans forced his surrender to them, he was taken to Berlin and put in solitary confinement. Grilled mercilessly about unflattering stories he had written, he was on the thin edge when the Gestapo men suddenly shook hands, told him he would be returned to Italy...
Another notable part of the collection is a group of 60 large and perfect specimen of irreplaceable lavender blue porcelains of the thirteenth century, rare among American and European museums...
...person who became known as Buddha devoted his life to seeking a way out of the unending cycles of rebirth to which the Hindu and his universe, through Siva, were bound. Through asceticism and contemplation Buddha found his goal of complete and final extinction (nirvana). His perfect enlightenment (bodhi) in this matter was what caused him to smile, and all his images to smile. On 57th Street in Manhattan last week they still smiled...
...believed that they could contribute more in a technical position than they could as a draftee. These men were dissatisfied with the Bureau at first because they felt that it held no information applicable to them, and in most respects their position was justified. The problem of the perfect physical specimen has now been reduced by the establishment of various Army and Navy reserve enlistment programs, and the specialist in the sciences can find any number of openings either through his Department or through enquiry at the Bureau...
...discontinuance of the year's official dining hall service is a prospicient and liberal decision. Remembering that Harvard's primary aim is to make its students perfect physical specimens, the University has taken this further step to insure their good health. By closing the dining halls the University also will save that fraction of their sugar ration hitherto allotted to the undergraduates. The principal motive, however, is not patriotic, but rather the fulfillment of the all-out Make-the-Students-Healthy program. In order to forestall the pending epidemic of ptomaine poisoning, the officials at Lehman Hall have ordered that...