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Word: perfection (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...threat never came off. St. Laurent, a French Canadian, proved the perfect answer to the cardinal rule of Canadian politics: never lose the French vote. French-speaking Quebec went Liberal almost 100%. (In Montreal, the only nonLiberal candidate elected was mammoth Mayor Camillien Houde, who ran as an independent.) In the traditional Tory stronghold of Ontario, St. Laurent's well organized campaign helped his party trim down the Tory vote. In the Maritimes and the West, it was the same story. Commentators used the word "tidal wave" as the Liberals ran up a parliamentary majority (132) and far beyond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Sweep | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

...perfect seriousness, Rose speaks of creating a "new medium of artistic expression." Half abstract and half symbolic, his new medium requires a highly sophisticated audience, appeals more to the mind than to the eye. He uses light bulbs in his religious paintings, Rose explains, "to represent the eternal light of Jesus Christ by something which people think of when they think of light. I wanted to get away from the historical representation of the Crucifixion to emphasize that it is something still happening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Blossoming Career | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

...ones, Heavyweight Champion Palooka's wedding to Cheese Heiress Ann Howe will be the marriage of the year -after one of the longest engagements on record. For 18 years, Cartoonist Fisher has tantalized his readers by discovering new, insuperable obstacles to the Howe-Palooka nuptials every time the perfect lovers seem about to get hitched. This week he will bow to "popular demand" and draw the knot in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Fisher's home town. Says married & divorced Ham Fisher, who takes Palooka as seriously as his most ardent fan: "They're going to be the ideally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Mr. & Mrs. Palooka | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

...Perfection. To Landowska, "this is my last will and testament. I have to make it perfect." She was taking plenty of time to make it that way-to make sure that exactly the balance and quality she wanted to hear would come off the wax. In her weekly sessions, she had worked 42 hours, making retake after retake, to record 45 minutes of music. At 70 (her birthday is actually July 5), the somewhat mystic, sometimes earthy little Polish-born woman is the acknowledged high priestess of the harpsichord, the sweet-sounding, twangy-bangy instrument she rescued from oblivion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Grandma Bachante | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

...vestiges of once-vital organs which no longer serve much real purpose, and only cause trouble if they try to. Take for example, in 20th Century U.S. civilization, the father of a bride. Take specifically Mr. Stanley Banks of 24 Maple Drive, Fairview Manor, a vestigial organ in a perfect state of preservation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Ordeal of Mr. Banks | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

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