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Word: perfecters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Great incentive to the work given by the fact that B. E. the Premier, Mr. Mussolini, was highly interested in it, and expressed his firm will that the ninth Congress of the C. I. E. should be a perfect demonstration of order and magnitude, and, above all, a noble manifestation of the new Italian university spirit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: International Confederation of Students' Congress at Rome Last Year a Great Success--Thirty Nations Represented | 6/12/1928 | See Source »

According to The Nature Magazine for July, 1927, "The Harvard Forest at Petersham is a perfect forest laboratory, the most interesting in the United States...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROMINENT FORESTERS VISIT HARVARD FOREST | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

...naturally when you can afford them. Something of the same instinct that acquired the Mellon paintings is also seen in the Mellon motor car, which was specially designed and constructed entirely of aluminum, not because Mr. Mellon was a power in the aluminum industry but because it seemed a perfect thing to do, and perhaps useful to others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Res Publicae | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

...error between 2.75% and 5.3% has existed in the House of Representatives since the census of 1920. At its best, the House is never a perfect mirror of the U. S. voters, but even this ascertainable error in the House would, in an average mirror, be enough to make wise men look stupid, proud men look fools, honest men look knaves. Most knavish of all look the members of the House who have prevented a reapportionment of popular representation in the U. S. since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Warped Mirror | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

...Liberty is being crucified at our very door, and the United States looks on with perfect indifference. Despotism seems to have become popular amongst us. Are we not sending endless goodwill parties to Mexico? Are we not courting the friendship and favor of the very men whose hands are simply dripping with the blood of their innocent victims? . . . The ominous silence of the American press and pulpit is not understandable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Death in Mexico | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

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