Word: perfect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...current Judy is 16-year-old Barbara Whiting, pretty, pudgy kid sister of Songstress Margaret Whiting. Agent Barren Polan found her in a Hollywood record shop, where she was heard asking for some "really sincere" recordings. "I looked," said Polan, "and it was a perfect Junior Miss." It was, indeed. Barbara played a supporting role in the cinema version of Junior Miss, has grown up into an accept able lead. She wallows in a bubblegumbo of teen-talk ("Johnny had on a suede coat that just wouldn't quit!"), is really sincere about her role. She longs to become...
With the Veritas emphasis on fantasy, Alden said that the hilly Charles slum area was perfect. It's really rather quaint, with its cobblestone streets and local characters supplying more than enough of the proper atmosphere...
This was the second game, and the second win for the Deacons. It was also McNutt's second shut-out, the first being a 6 to 0 two-hit win over Lowell in the opening game of their baseball season last Thursday. This also gives the Deacons a perfect win and loss average of 1000, and puts them just as high on the baseball ladder as they will ever...
...requirement that a man compete against Yale for his "H," and letting the coaches decide. Captains of minor sports squads deserve major letters --which the authorities have in special cases acknowledged. Finally, as a measure to improve the quality of minor sports teams, squads having excellent but not perfect records should receive major letters. Such flexibility in the awarding of the "H" would go a long way towards reducing the number of unfair cases that now exist through sheer tradition and bureaucracy...
Faith Undebased. The strongest element in Beatrice's mixed character was her piety. She gave allegiance to no church ("Jesus," she said, "seems to me . . . perhaps, not the most perfect embodiment of the ideal of faith"), but she loved nothing better than to pray in St. Paul's Cathedral. She, who insisted that all earthly things stand up to scientific test, abhorred the intellectual theologians who sought to "prove" the existence of God-an approach which she believed served only to "debase the purpose" of faith. Sidney never prayed; but Beatrice was certain that he, too, believed...