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Word: perfectible (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this manner we will not harm any church groups, which have a perfect right to discriminate, but we shall bring the public wrath onto other groups that maintain bias provisions in their charters," Houghteling said. The proposal was tabled until next week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Joins Radcliffe in Study of Girls' Role in College Organizations | 12/13/1949 | See Source »

Notre Dame went to Texas last week expecting to wind up a perfect season in a blaze of touchdowns. Instead, in Dallas' Cotton Bowl, it was all but charged off its All-America feet by a fiery, accurate Southern Methodist team, minus its injured star Doak Walker but brilliantly led by Halfback Kyle Rote, that fought as if it were defending the Alamo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Best Team We've Met | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...full, round figure alerted Washington's amateur physicists. According to fairly dependable estimates, the Hiroshima bomb developed not more than 10% of the fission energy present in its nuclear explosive. Perfect efficiency (probably impossible) would therefore give about ten times as much power, certainly not 1,000 times as much. So, figured the amateur physicists, the talkative Senator must have meant a bomb made out of hydrogen. It is well known that the conversion of hydrogen into helium is the nuclear reaction that gives the sun its energy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hydrogen Whisper | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...Perfect Crime. In Electra, Texas, while P. H. Loftin was standing on a street corner someone stole his hat off his head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 12, 1949 | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...scenery, costuming, and especially the casting for the production were all good. Everyone was perfect for the part to the point where it seemed that the part was created...

Author: By Brenton Welling, | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 12/10/1949 | See Source »

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