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Word: perfectible (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...defense was the perfect weapon against the hapless Engineers, who anchor their offense around their 6-ft. center, Diane Ozelius. With Harvard clogging the middle, Ozelius could not work down low, and was forced to shoot from outside her range...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: ...While Women Employ Tough Zone, Dominate MIT's Hapless Engineers, 63-24 | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

...offered either. For a ticket that never got higher than $5, the hall offered its customer not merely a movie but performances by a 75-member symphony orchestra, a resident corps de ballet, visiting vocalists and instrumentalists, and zealous sing-alongs with the booming organ. And, always, the machine-perfect, fail-proof routines of the pert-figured, high-kicking Rockettes. On seasonal holidays there were, in addition, lavishly staged extravaganzas during which the mammoth stage might be transformed into a cathedral, or a racecourse for chariots drawn by live horses, or a harbor bearing the illusion of full-size ships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: A Shrine of Showbigness Goes Down | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

...think the best way to prepare for exams or recuperate from them is to hear some standard classical works, you're in luck this month. Bach, Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven are well represented among the concerts in Cambridge and Boston, and might be the perfect remedy for frayed nerves. On the other hand, WHRB presents sixty consecutive hours of the complete recorded music of Schoenberg and Stravinsky for those whose nerves aren't frayed enough...

Author: By Richard Kreindler, | Title: Here To Fray, Gone Tomorrow | 1/12/1978 | See Source »

Sounds impossible? Just ask John Cochrane, who capped a three-on-two break by taking a perfect lead pass from Steve Andrews at the right face off circle and firing a wrist shot to the far side past Brown goalie Mark Holden...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Crimson Six Dumps Brown on Television, 7-4 | 1/9/1978 | See Source »

...priest. When Frank shows up at home one day with the news that he is leaving the priesthood, the family is despondent--except for Tony. As he explains to his brother, "I always felt like I was the shit of the family, but maybe if you're not so perfect I ain't so shit...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: Only a Slight 'Fever' | 1/9/1978 | See Source »

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