Word: perfected
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...They cry out loudly against all banks and corporations and all means by which small capitals become united in order to produce important and beneficial results. They carry on mad hostility against all established institutions. In a country of unbounded liberty they clamor against oppression. In a country of perfect equality they would move heaven and earth against privilege and monopoly. In a country where the wages of labor are high beyond parallel, they would teach the laborer that he is but an oppressed slave...
...this time. This is particularly the case since Mr. Root, like most of his fellow Americans, takes a liberal view of the Covenant, and considers it far from hopeless. He considers the Covenant as it stands an instrument of great practical power, but as yet far from a perfect one. If reports be true, President Wilson in Paris has already taken Senator Root's views into account. Let us profit by the fair and reasonable position which Mr. Root has taken and above all let us detach the League scheme from personalities as completely as he has done...
Roulette is a very difficult part for an American to have attempted, and Mr. Edgar Scott does it admirably. His French is charming and he carries off the swagger,--although that is far too strong a word -- of the imposter, with perfect self confidence...
...best means to procure a perfect pronunciation and to make a good orator...
Whether we accept the "League of Nations" or not, we must maintain the trust we have won. For after all, the future peace of the world depends primarily on the conference existing between states. No pact however perfect can eliminate war if mutual distrust is engendered. If the motives of our action in the Great War were upheld to future generations as examples to follow in all foreign dealings, the world would become educated in the difference between international right and wrong...