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Word: perfected (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...paid by Mrs. Smith to Mrs. Woodrow Wilson at the Jesse Holman Joneses'. Said Mrs. Gibson, whose sister, as everyone knows, is Lady Astor: "You needn't worry about Mrs. Smith in the White House or anywhere else. "That's a great little lady. She has perfect poise, gentleness, kindliness of heart, all the really fine qualities which we women want in the White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mrs. Smith's Week | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

...capable young Chinaman called by fawning flatterers "The Perfect Soldier" admitted last week, after 17 days of prudent concealment, the death of his father, Chang Tso-lin, the great War Lord of Manchuria, who was bombed after evacuating Peking (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Chang after Chang | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

...play in their faces but not in their games. Jones, plump and thoughtful, his cowlick slicing over his eyebrow, stalked after his ball in silence while Farrell, lean and dark, walked with a gloomy air beside him. As beautiful, as effective as ever was Jones's effortless, mechanically perfect game; his drives were as long as ever, his putts as straight and his score-144-identical with that which had put him ahead in the second round. To Jones, winning would have been an honor and satisfaction. To Farrell it meant an honor and satisfaction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Olympia Fields | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

...large number of prominent men with experience in politics came forward and assisted to perfect the organization. Then we went ahead and did efficient work. Oh, yes, I will admit that it is an efficient organization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: New Machine | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

...Rogers, Jr., grandson of John D. Rockefeller's old partner in Standard Oil, son of the yachting Colonel, brother of beautiful, sensational Millicent, onetime Countess Salm and now Mrs. Arturo Ramos, does not object to dirty fingernails. In the Cleveland laboratory of Engineer E. M. Fraser, helping perfect an electric drive for automobiles, young Rogers, Oxford graduate, declared: "I would rather cast a generator part than anything else I can think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 25, 1928 | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

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