Word: imperfections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago. Like Max, half the effect of his pictures is in the written cap tions that accompany them: A satanic gargoyle looking down on New York says, "Ah well, one lives and learns, one lives and learns." Jehovah being berated by melancholy Thomas Hardy for creating such an imperfect Universe, apologizes meekly: "Ah, Mr. Hardy, if you only knew all the circumstances...
...perfect, program has been invariably imperfect...
...treated for it and refused life insurance because of it, asserted Dr. John Ralston Williams of Rochester, N. Y. Excess sugar in the blood is no positive criterion of the disease, he said. He proposed a method of exactly measuring the output of the pancreas (abdominal salivary gland) whose imperfect function is an essential factor in the cause of diabetes...
Those who expected to find in Foch's 530 pages an easy answer to their questions had a very imperfect knowledge of the character of the Allied Commander. Marshal Foch's book, which in the French edition bears the more precise title of Memoirs to Assist the History of the War, was to be his Apologia. And Marshal Foch, as a devout Catholic and a Latinist, knew that an apologia is not an apology but a defense. Therefore he penned a precise, colorless, painfully accurate account of what he had done from the outbreak of the War until the Allied...
...trying desultorily and ineffectively to restrict the growth of the particular poppy from which opium, morphine and heroin is manufactured and the manufacture of narcotics. Persia will not stop poppy culture because a large part of its population depends on the business and other nations are competing. China's imperfect government cannot control the production. And because China and Persia do practically nothing, Great Britain has difficulty in forcing India to restrict its poppy crops by 10% each year...