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Word: flawless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Joyce is constantly jotting down overheard phrases, is especially interested in dialects, Midwestern American, British colonial, newspaper jargon. He speaks Italian as smoothly as English, flawless French, fluent German, knows some dozen other tongues, including outlandish Lapp. At present Joyce is not writing. His wife is trying to get him started on something, because when he is not working he is hard to live with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Night Thoughts | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

Errorless fielding and flawless judgement might have produced a win against North Carolina, but the outdoor practice since February 15, spelled a 16-12 defeat for Harvard. Healey pitched well for the losers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASEBALL TEAM MAKES FAIR SPRING SHOWING | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...same cannot be said for Walter Abel; he poses from one side of the stage to the other; and though the audience is expected to envision him as something of a great or romantic ham, he is unconvincing their as great or romantic; his greatest asset is his flawless reading of lines...

Author: By V.f. Jr., | Title: The Playgoer | 3/9/1939 | See Source »

Kirkland exhibited almost flawless timing on spinners and reverses. One play especially was deceptive, a center delayed buck on a fake spinner, which gained consistently. The entire Deacon line fought hard, tackled cleanly and effectively...

Author: By J. PHILIP Lyford, | Title: Kirkland Steamrollers Eli Champions, 18-0 | 11/12/1938 | See Source »

...than three years ago Mr. Bessie was an editor of this paper. He received a Harvard magna cum laude degree, and "Jazz Journalism," which is dedicated to a member of the History department, is illustrative of the shallow scholarship that Harvard too often teaches. Mr. Bessie's research is flawless, but his naivete is stupendous. In the entire work the words "morbidity," "propaganda," "sadism," "malice" and "fabrication" do not once appear. Mr. Bessie seems unaware of persecutions and deliberate hoaxes for editorial or sensational reasons. He gives credit to the ingenuity of none but the most scurvy editors...

Author: By C. L. B., | Title: The Bookshelf | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

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