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Word: perfectability (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...super-legal bodyguard the Fascist Militia bristles round Signor Mussolini, a band of tried and loyal men, armed, and conscious that their one duty is to protect, obey and follow II Duce. Last week the code of this arch-Fascist volunteer corps was embodied into a "Decalogue for the Perfect Fascist Militia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Perfect Militiamen | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

...Hallowe'en cabbage patch, Dr. Arnold Sack's assistants at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, twisted the blackened heads off his Egyptian mummies so that he could better study them for traces of ancient afflictions. The oldest skulls, now weazened and leather-covered, showed teeth in perfect condition. People of 4,000 to 6,000 years ago ate coarse foods which prevented dental decay. But by the time of the Christian Era, Egyptian life was luxurious, food was soft. Consequently tooth decay was as prevalent as today. One batch of 500 mummies showed at least one tooth rotted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mummified Afflictions | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

...perfect combination. The Hon. Mr. Comer had been everything an Alabaman should have been-Civil War cadet, large-scale farmer, large investor in manufactories, wholesale merchant, citizen with public spirit enough to enter politics and fight for reforms himself. Railway rates had been the issue of his political career. Water-transportation for inland Alabama industry was the end to which he now gave his name and money, until the end was won. Not for a "handsome profit" Alabamans said, had the Hon. Mr. Comer and Publisher Thompson used the Age-Herald, but as an instrument to develop their state which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Chapter Heading | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

Crime?The perfect robbery by a sainted criminal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Showing in Manhattan | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

...will but his own. It is therefore necessary to please each individual and the number of mirrors, glass beads and other trinkets which must be carried is deplored by the white trader or explorer. Furthermore the native's absolute disregard of social status based on property ownership and his perfect satisfaction with his lot makes him impossible as a laborer. In this respect the native of New Guinea furnishes a strong contrast to his industrious neighbor on the Island of Java...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Peabody Museum Explorer Tells of Peculiar Dietetics of New Guinea Natives--Papuans Are Linguistically Isolated | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

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