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Word: perfectability (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just 23 seconds later, Captain Walt Greeley fed Dick Clasby a perfect lead pass for the goal. The Hubbard-Greeley-Clasby line, incidentally, tallied all the Crimson markers. With 87 seconds to play John Burns tied the score on a good screon shot...

Author: By Hiller B. Zobel, | Title: Hockey Team Nips B.U., 6-5 | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

...mishmash of straight American, pidgin talk and sign language, with occasional help from the few interpreters at hand. All this forwards the brotherhood of man. But it can be tough on night patrol in the cold wastelands between the lines, where each man's life may depend on perfect understanding and precision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: THE FIGHTING, WAITING EIGHTH ARMY | 12/22/1952 | See Source »

Amherst gave the varsity squash team no more competition than anyone expected yesterday and no one expected very much. Jack Barnaby's team turned in another perfect match, downing the Lord Jeffs 9 to 0 at Amherst...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Squash Team Downs Amherst Squad 9-0; '56 Squad Also Wins | 12/18/1952 | See Source »

...varsity wrestlers for the third straight time as they defeated Tufts, 30 to 6, last night in the Jumbos' new Jackson gym. Earlier in the evening, the freshman team scored a 36 to 0 sweep over the Tufts first year men, to give the Crimson a near-perfect record for the night's work at Medford...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Wrestlers Folllow '56 Win With Near Whitewash Over Tufts | 12/18/1952 | See Source »

...rare occasions when such cases come to the operating table, their doctors must decide whether there is a physical leaning toward one sex or the other. They must also consider whether the patient has been reared as a boy or a girl. Then the surgeons leave as nearly perfect a male or female as they can. Less extreme cases, which show only a few features of the opposite sex, are proportionately easier to treat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mixed Sex | 12/15/1952 | See Source »

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