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Word: perfected (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...points-94% perfect. (P. 6.) The Tusitala-which will enable the Sophisticates to escape from a Babbitt world. (P. 15.) Breakfast confidences such as Colonel House receives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Point With Pride: Jun. 25, 1923 | 6/25/1923 | See Source »

...religious and moral earnestness have sought to attain the perfect life by two different paths--contemplation and service...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SUCCESSES OFTEN BUILT ON EARLY SEEMING FAILURES | 6/19/1923 | See Source »

...President and I were in perfect agreement," declared Mr. Adams afterwards. They had decided that one Republican woman from each state should be named as an advisory member of the committee, until the national convention next year. Then the women may expect 50% representation on the Republican National Committee, just as they have on the Democratic Committee. "My idea," Mr. Adams pursued, " has been that at the next national convention, when the women of the country have decided definitely just what recognition they would like to have, the national convention will take action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: A Perfect Agreement | 6/18/1923 | See Source »

...lonely vacation from journalism and a noisy family. He and his flivver, by an accident only Einstein could fitly explain, crash right through the fourth dimension and into Utopia?where he finds a handful of other Earthlings, as bewildered as he at finding themselves translated to a new and perfect universe. The others include those whom Mr. Wells seems to regard as typical public nuisances of a modern civilization?a titled lady, pleasant, but futile, a millionaire lord of the shady variety, a semi-prominent demi-mondaine? French diplomat, rulers of empire such as Lord Robert Cecil and Winston Churchill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Men Like Gods | 6/18/1923 | See Source »

...Warren G. Harding: "Delegations from the Shriners of Ohio called on Mr. Harding on the south lawn of the White House. Because of my indisposition I watched from the White House balcony. At my request two of the Shriners' bands played my favorite piece: The End of a Perfect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Imaginary Interviews: Jun. 18, 1923 | 6/18/1923 | See Source »

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