Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This year, seeking to perfect its service and to establish more satisfactory classifications, Editor & Publisher obtained 1928 lineage statistics for 387 dailies and Sunday papers in 81 cities from Media Records, Inc., an independent audit bureau, instead of accepting statements of individual publishers and agents as in the past. In addition to the Media records, Editor & Publisher compiled figures for 1,019 newspapers, in 684 cities, compiled according to the old practice. The whole story was edited-&-published last week...
...outlined by Coach Can hell of Dartmouth and Coach Horween of Harvard are strikingly representative of the types of football played by the two teams. For years Dartmouth has planned her attack on the lines of the open game, which requires speed and skill in handling the ball. To perfect players in these requirements Coach Hawley, and now Can hell after him, employed exercises of all kinds, as remote is could be imagined from the old hard-driving, hauling football which was popular for so long. Tumbling and skipping rope would have seemed dainty to sportsmen a score of years...
There is also the Bell Telephone Laboratories which is supported by the different operating Companies, and which does the experimental work in both pure and applied science that is necessary to develop and perfect the different parts of the Company's apparatus...
...chief reasons which make necessary the political independence of the Holy See are that the Catholic Church is a perfect society of men established by Christ Himself to carry out faithfully His laws and teachings...
...national leaders in public life, industry, and education favoring the re-instatement of German in the secondary curriculum. If the elimination of Germanic studies was a foolish manifestation of war-time hysteria, to allow public prejudice and the negligence of school authorities to block its return is but a perfect example of the old story, cutting off one's nose to spite one's face...