Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...space. Though but a trifle over three pages long, it lacks scarcely one of the properties which the current practice of our best ten-cent magazines proves helpful toward securing publication. Local color, uncouth dialect, primal passion, heroic resignation, a moral struggle, and a savage fight march in perfect order to an artistically vague ending. A fit companion to "Pete La Farge" is "The Morrigan." Mr. Schenck piles on lurid horrors with the ungrudging hand of love. Beside his sketch, Mr. Proctor's clever "Page from Gorky" seems pale and ineffective. After the reader has shuddered at "the great black...
...fifth. a. Scheiss hit to left centre for two bases and took third on a wide throw to second by Hartford. The next man field out to Dana, but Jackson was given his base on balls. Jackson tried to steal second but was out on Currier's perfect throw to Simons. Scheiss made no attempt to come home on the play, and was left on third when McCaffery sent a liner to Briggs. In the next inning Fordham's two runs were made. Gargan Struck out, but Coffey hit safely to centre field. Harvey juggled the ball, allowing the runner...
...great deal of football, but also because they get in touch will the coaching system. The coaches, also, learn to know the men and can estimate the worth of the available material. In the fall the coaches cannot devote their time to individual coaching; they must work to perfect a machine. In the spring, however, there are a great many coaches who spend their time watching the different candidates...
...admiral began to send disagreeable messages which touched the officers' pride, until they all decided to do what he wished. As soon as he found that they had learned to keep their distance he began to put them through every imaginable evolution until they were able to perform with perfect accuracy...
Nimrod, King of Babylon, W. G. Wendell '09Hem, contractor and builder, G. Butler '09Haw, contractor and builder, R. M. Middlemass '09Joseph, son of Haw, J. P. S. Harrison '09Googoo, a private detective, A. P. Loring, Jr., '09Abdullah, Grand Vizier of Egypt, H. W. H. Powel, Jr., '09Bung, a perfect man-servant, W. G. Roelker, Jr., '09Habbadash, a prophet without honor, F. Schenck '09Ho-Hum-Hoo, a slave, H. B. Barton '09Cheest, a workman, C. L. Lanigan '10Foreman at the works, K. S. Cate '09Peleg, an architect, G. deC. May '09Reuben, a secretary, G. Lewis, Jr., '09Semiramis, Queen of Egypt...