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Word: perfectability (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Watch the Snake!" Moments later, McKeon took the occasion for a lecture. "Here's something to remember," he sang out. "When you're in water in combat never go out in the middle. You make a perfect target, especially on a moonlight night. Keep close to the shore. Keep moving or you will bog down." Not everyone heard him; there was too much confusion. Some of the boots tried to joke. One yelled: "Hey, something just swam between my legs!" Another found a short piece of rope and waved it, shouting: "Watch the snake! Watch the snake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Death in Ribbon Creek | 4/23/1956 | See Source »

...headings range from "Obstetrics" to "Of necklines, lust and divorce." Complaints pour in daily, blasting NBC for such sins as undermining the language by billing the perry como show in lower-case letters, and subverting the nation by pointing out in Biographies in Sound that George Washington was not perfect. But Helffrich has found that the principal areas of censorship trouble lie in 1) racial hysteria, 2) obvious salaciousness, 3) excessive violence and 4) irresponsible slaps at mental illness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Tact Expert | 4/23/1956 | See Source »

...Summer School has a great deal to offer--certainly considerably more than the opportunity merely to obtain that extra credit. It may not be every one's dream of a perfect vacation, but it certainly is for some...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Summer School Can Be Fun, Too | 4/18/1956 | See Source »

...grant is one of a number from the Fund for the Advancement of Education to improve teaching methods and resources. B.F. Skinner, professor of Psychology, has received money to perfect a machine to teach an elementary language and science at the college level...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chemistry Dept. Receives $25,000 for Teaching Film | 4/17/1956 | See Source »

...Perfect Timing. While Trans-Canada grappled with its problems, Frank McMahon was a quiet bystander. He was then deep in negotiations to build a 650-mile pipeline to take gas from his companies' fields in Alberta and British Columbia through "the Rocky Mountains into the U.S. Pacific Northwest. But Murchison's delay gave McMahon time to get his Northwest project well under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL & GAS: Battle of the Giants | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

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