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Word: perfectability (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conclusion, if by chance this great architectural advance, seeking perfection in roundness (this being the closest architecture can presently come to the perfect sphere), does not inspire the students with religious zeal, it may yet, by its very strangeness of form, further their engineering interests and drive them to design even "bigger and better" chapels of worship. Nan Barkin--Radcliffe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROBOT CHAPEL | 4/26/1955 | See Source »

...springtime in Sheepshead Bay and the rubber plants were stretching themselves. On this perfect morning, Frank Biondo Jr. decided to pay a call on his grandmother. So he hopped into the family's brand-new, two-toned green Pontiac and started...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: To Grandmother's House | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

...They didn't talk much about directives at that time. In the Harvard branch we all felt free, within fairly large limits, to disagree with party functionaries. . . It is therefore dangerous and unfair to assume that because an individual was once a member of the party he was its perfect and willing instrument." All who have testified agree that the group was not engaged in espionage or sabotage...

Author: By William W. Bartley iii, | Title: Its Effects on a Few Have Produced a Harvard Myth | 4/22/1955 | See Source »

...midfield scored five goals, half as many as the offense players, which is theoretically the perfect ratio between the two. This is the first time the midfield has been evident on the point list...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lacrosse Team Drops Two Games to Cornell, Syracuse | 4/20/1955 | See Source »

...that saw the birth of Shakespeare and the death of Michelangelo. He was himself one of the last universal figures of the age. At 22, he produced a hydrostatic balance (a device for measuring the specific gravities of objects), went on to construct the first astronomically usable telescope and perfect the law of the motion of falling bodies. He was equally at ease pruning his Florentine vineyards or penning satiric verse. For years, Galileo grubbed away in underpaid mathematical teaching posts without losing his love of learning or his abiding contempt for the ossified scholars of his time. He subscribed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Martyr of Thought | 4/18/1955 | See Source »

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