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Word: perfectability (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...A.F.L.-C.I.O. strategists, the aircraft industry, fat with Government contracts, seemed the perfect target in the fight for a new round of wage increases (TIME, Feb. 2). They figured that the big planemakers, with the biggest backlogs in their history on the books, could easily pass along the extra wage cost. Last week the target was hit. In the first big strike of the year 12,000 members of the International Association of Machinists walked out of the Republic Aviation plant at Farmingdale, N.Y., and three smaller branches (including a guided missile plant). The company has $500 million in Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: First Big Strike | 3/5/1956 | See Source »

...scientist is Dr. Erich Varnoff. Exiled by a "foreign power," Varnoff decides to rule the world. As he puts it, "I will perfect my own race of people." Varnoff sets up a monster-making establishment in an old dilapidated mansion, the old Willows Place, which is hidden deep in an old secluded swamp. "This swamp," one of the characters later reveals, "is a monument to death...

Author: By Jonathan Beecher, | Title: Monsters | 3/1/1956 | See Source »

Boxing was first instituted as a minor letter in 1930, and in the next five years, the team developed into one of the coun-a tie with Yale marred a perfect record. try's most powerful squads

Author: By Bruce M. Reeves, | Title: Student Committee Drives For Intercollegiate Boxing | 2/24/1956 | See Source »

...skill of Boxing is the skill of a highly trained nervous system, capable of instant reflex action; it is the skill of perfect balance and graceful efficient movement . . ." tercollegiate bout, and is not its objective...

Author: By Bruce M. Reeves, | Title: Intercollegiate Boxing Used to Be Popular | 2/24/1956 | See Source »

...everything goes off as fancy as it looks now, you would be very happy to be here and to see your opera on the stage and I would be very happy to see it with you and your presence would be all we need to make the opera perfect in every...

Author: By Gavin Scott, | Title: The Mother O.U.A. | 2/24/1956 | See Source »

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