Word: perfected
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...Tobin should be commended for this wise assertion. By merely indorsing these two phrases (decreed incorrect by arbitrary standards) the citizens of the United States may claim great credit for themselves for their considerable advance toward perfect expression in language. Moreover, professors and literati, who have hitherto gazed haughtily down upon the rabble from the rarified heights of correct speech, would suffer a righteous degradation. Yet it is never too late to learn, and these latter might in time master the new idiom. It would certainly be amusing to hear the ingenuous members of English A rebuked for using...
Corbett is still the same old Jim, tall, well-tailored and wearing the same impenetrable face. He forms a perfect foil for the antics of his partner, his eloquent speech on the eighteenth amendment being completely lost in the gales of merriment aroused by the contortions of Van, as the latter attempts to tell his "red" joke...
...University rifle team won a victory over the University of Maine Saturday, by a score of 479 to 466 out of a possible 500. E. G. Lund '23 was the high scorer for the University, failing by one point only to hand in a perfect card. Individual scores for the University, of whom only the first five placed in the score of the match, were as follows...
...last Monday night at the Colonial, Ed Wynn, supported by an able cast, gave his "Carnival", a two-act, thirteen scene entertainment. As Raymond Hitchcock was the centre of his "Hitchy-koo", so Ed Wynn is the center of his Carnival. In him, his self-styled "entertainment" has a "Perfect Fool" with spontaniety, cleverness and humor. In explaining the coming scenes, Mr. Wynn gives his ideas to the audience very well but surprises them by following with scenes entirely extraneous to the outlined plot...
...gulled by such service; the book is like your young heir there (pointing to a child of three years old, who was rolling on the carpet in his white funniest, he shows at times a good deal that is usually concealed, but it is all in perfect innocence...