Word: perfected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles (sent in lieu of his chief, Cordell Hull, so that the smaller countries would not feel dominated) began issuing statements, as President Juan Demosthenes Arosemena of Panama polished up a speech of welcome, the U. S. got busy backstage. Casually, as if its perfect timing were just a happy coincidence, the New York World's Fair put on a Pan American Day, at which, by chance, Cordell Hull was scheduled to speak. In the Fair's Court of Peace, Secretary of State Hull gave a quiet, drawling speech in favor of justice...
Since both Japan and conquered areas of China were neutral with regard to Europe's war, said the lawyers, they had a perfect right to ask belligerents (Great Britain and France) to withdraw all military and naval posts...
...editors of the New Masses mourn Mr. Hicks' fall from grace because he did not--as they did--"thoroughly understand the ideas" of Communism. This is, of course, a perfect example of the militant intolerance which distinguishes Communism as one of the most fanatic of all religions. The true Communist will not grant an inch, even though his intellectual defences are completely shattered. Mr. Hicks, it seems, is not a true Communist. For he still values the integrity of his reason over the dictates of dogma...
...rooms, a new central staircase and widened halls, or the 118 paintings, 53 pieces of sculpture, 31 water colors, 29 drawings and 57 prints by 20th Century American artists. Dawdling gallerygoers, who could scarcely tell when night fell as the concealed lights filled the rooms with an almost perfect synthetic daylight, were tickled with everything. They got a familiar pleasure from such standard brands as George Luks's gamey Mrs. Gamley, George Bellows' Dempsey and Firpo, John Sloan's Backyards, Greenwich Village, Charles Burchfield's Old House by the Creek, Max Weber's The Chinese...
...Germany last week the liaison between science and the army was perfect: every scientist, of whatever stripe or affiliation, stood ready to obey the commands of his Government...