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Word: perfect (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...youngsters of Mentor, Ohio demanded needles, thread and buttons on their Hallowe'en rounds as their part in the campaign to help the people of Suolahti, Finland, a town, which Mentor has "adopted." ¶ Newark's Judge Nicholas Fernicola ruled that Mrs. W. J. Clark had a perfect right to hit a bill collector with a broom. Said the judge: "A woman's home is her castle, and she doesn't have to have anyone in it she doesn't want." ¶In San Francisco, Patrick James Fleming, 23, an ex-convict, discovered a trap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Wise Beyond Years | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

...searching for the perfect lover," Mrs. Howe added. "If Harvard fails to produce...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Idler Still Seeks A 'Perfect Lover' | 11/2/1948 | See Source »

...excellent speaker. In listening to Dewey, it is impossible to forget that he once considered a singing career rather than the law. His voice climbs up and down the baritone register with perfect confidence; he knows which way his voice should go on every phrase and he never stumbles over difficult word combinations. He has gotten over the tight, diction-teacher quality his voice had four years ago and he now speaks freely and easily...

Author: By Kenneth S. Lynn g, | Title: The Arena Waltz | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...having gone to considerable trouble to perfect his voice, Dewey is singing only love songs this year. He talked about the Communists and about Stalin during that half hour of charm at the Arena and it sounded like Arthur Godfrey praising Graham crackers. A traitor's treatment, Dewey cooed, is what any Communist will get if he's caught betraying the Americans government. Here he stepped back from the microphones and smiled delightedly. A thin ripple of applause swept the crowd...

Author: By Kenneth S. Lynn g, | Title: The Arena Waltz | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

With all due credit to the required downfield blocks and to the perfect hand off by Nick Athans, Moffie is probably the only Harvard back capable of swiveling so neatly past the two Holy Cross tacklers who had him and then didn...

Author: By Richard A. Green, | Title: Victory Shows Crimson Still Potential Unit | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

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