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Word: perfectability (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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John Getch laid down a perfect squeeze bunt to bring home the run that beat Columbia, 4 to 3, in the last of the ninth. But his tap, which went for an infield hit, came only a few pitches after another bunt call had almost quenched the Crimson's rally...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: Nine Wins Twice As Tennis Team Splits | 5/7/1956 | See Source »

Public debate on the nation's policy of developing atomic and hydrogen bombs always has been handicapped by one stark fact: there can hardly be two sides to the argument when the nondebating Russians are rushing to perfect the biggest, most devastating weapons as fast as they can -and now are bragging about it to boot (see FOREIGN NEWS). Last week two Democratic candidates relearned this lesson in a discussion that went, chronologically, thus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hydrogen Politics | 5/7/1956 | See Source »

...Those were mighty fine pictures of Ed Wynn, "The Perfect Fool," in your News in Pictures. C. W. CARROLL Rochester...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 30, 1956 | 4/30/1956 | See Source »

...critic Emile Henriot wrote: "At her flying start two years ago, we could wonder if this 18-year-old girl, bitterly instructed . . . would be the woman of only one book, this terribly disturbing Bonjour Tristesse . . . We had to wait for her second book. Here it is . . . and it is perfect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sagan's Second | 4/30/1956 | See Source »

Playing Mrs. Wilberforce, the contrast to the mob's coarseness, Katie Johnson is perfect. Offering unwanted cups of tea, forgetting umbrellas, or banging on a sink to make water flow, she frustrates the world's complexity by being innocent and gentle. Her solution to the loot problem is clear--"surely we must just send back the money...

Author: By Larry Hartmann, | Title: The Ladykillers | 4/24/1956 | See Source »

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