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Pin Money. The results were startling. His serial number (which was printed on separately and had closed instead of open 45) was the only easily identifiable imperfection. Many counterfeiters soak their money in coffee and crumple it, to make it look older and its discrepancies harder to detect. Hugo'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Last Batch | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

Said Benjamin Franklin: "The small progress we have made after four or five weeks close attendance and continual reasonings with each other ... is methinks a melancholy proof of the imperfection of Human Understanding.... We have been assured, Sir, that 'except the Lord build the House, they labor in vain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: 127 Days That Shook the World | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

Although the populous Houses, Yard halls, and graduate school dormitories are expected to bear the brunt of the drive, their donations alone cannot fill Harvard's high quota, and the campaign will stall unless every commuter and faculty member contributes his share. The fact that the meager contributions of commuters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Four Wheel Drive | 3/6/1947 | See Source »

In the horrid imperfection

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tickets, Please! | 11/21/1946 | See Source »

Eternal Distinction. The democrat, who believed in the practical necessity of compromise and who acknowledged the innate imperfection and imperfectibility of man, had a creed of his own. He acknowledged the eternal distinction between the things of God and the things of Caesar, and the eternal distinction between fundamental principle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Bomb & the Man | 12/31/1945 | See Source »

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