Word: perfected
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...admitted that a system which has achieved so much for mankind cannot be lightly dismissed in deference to anybody's criticism. All great measures have been the work of parties and party government means movement, stability and responsibility. But no one would assert that the party system is perfect. However, nothing has been found which would take the place...
...would argue that this business system makes German administration perfect but it is a stride in the right direction. You cannot get a good man without offering him a good place, and as long as the United States refuses to offer any worthy inducement to proper men, the present unsatisfactory state of municipal government will remain...
...Sargent has in view a scheme to place on exhibition at the World's Fair two bronze castings. These castings are to represent masculine figures, ideally perfect in their physical proportins. The plans have not yet been perfected and as the scheme is still a visionary one nothing definite can be said about it. W. C. Noble the famous portrait statue artist, who now has a studio in Cambridge, will prepare the figures...
...considered his masterpiece. The theme of this great work is carried again and again into the minutest details and repeated by all the parts of the orchestra. The fabric is composed of the most intricate interweaving of part into part, yet all so skillfully that the effect of a perfect whole, a complete idea, is left with the hearer...
...selection "Aase's Death" from Grieg's Suite, "Peer Gynt," the orchestra showed itself in its best form. This whole work is full of exceedingly odd chords and combinations of chords, and the time and tune were perfect. It may be taken as an evidence of skill in a violinist for instance, that he can play a discord when it is demanded, for to the true musician this is as hard as it is easy for the unskilled. In "Peer Gynt" there are several of these well placed discords and their rendering last night was an evidence of the greatness...