Word: perfectable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...first two were the conversion attempts. Crimson cornerback Bill Cobb stopped the first with perfect containment of a Big Red sweep. Safety Tom Williamson thwarted the second with blanket coverage of intended receiver Bill Heeps...
...group in Boston is as involved in rock 'n' roll gold as the current college population, and RKO, in its one year on the air, has easily captured the student audience, so this upcoming extravaganza seems perfect--in theory. But in actuality, what has happened? The R-KO list is based on cards sent in by listeners last spring. And not only were voters limited to their top three, choices, but a prize was offered for the voter whose list coincided with the final tally. As a result, almost all the 5,000 ballots coalesced around 15 teenybopper standards...
...pondering the pages of TIME, we got to reflecting on the effects of stories in the magazine, and decided to pass on a few cases in point. ¶Two months ago, Science reported on findings that a major Brazilian river, the Rio Negro, had all the characteristics of a perfect insecticide because, during flooding, it sapped chemicals from neighboring vegetation. Brazil's Minister of Interior said his office had not known of the phenomenon; he encouraged wide publication of the TIME story in the Brazilian press...
...style laws as a blatant c^se of state-approved eugenics, never before established in U.S. law. To abort a rubella (German measles) victim, they say, is to rely on the purely statistical chance (average odds: 50-50) that her child may be defective-and to doom a possibly perfect baby in the process. To abort a fetus produced by rape or incest, they say, is to execute the most innocent partv in the trianele purely for the mother's social convenience. Even the rapist is guaranteed a trial based on all of law's due-process standards...
...beard). But Wright also taught Smith the elements of good architecture and the drama of the flow of space. Though Smith never acquired an architecture degree or license, he decided to strike out on his own, designed several houses, which visitors say are "logical, livable, not fancy, but in perfect dimension...