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Word: perfection (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...large organization, full of pep and eager to do something with social significance, and without a single thought in its collective head that has anything to do with what is going on in the world except that it likes "our American way of life," you have the perfect set-up for any effective demagogue to take over so long as he seems to be for the "American system...

Author: By Joel Raphaelson, | Title: Off The Cuff | 10/15/1948 | See Source »

There is little chance that C.B. II will prove the perfect, all-purpose painkiller-or that any such wonder drug will ever be found. Pain is a complicated and mysterious thing. It is often dangerous not to feel it, for it is the body's alarm system. But pain sometimes rings the alarm so loudly and long that it upsets the body's whole balance. Some kinds of pain the doctors would like to reduce, some they would like to remove entirely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Feeling No Pain | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

After a year of wandering, the club will return to Sanders Theatre for the offering. Miller said that Sanders was perfect for the play, which is staged in a Greek setting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HDC Lists French Comedy for Fall | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...specific proposals I will make," he said, "will not set faction against faction, group against group. They will aim to join us together in a more perfect union." Ticking off the nation's ills-high prices, housing, racial discrimination-Dewey echoed Warren's sweet reasonableness and added a sly twist of his own. "Some of these unhappy conditions are the result of circumstances beyond the control of any government. Any fair-minded person would agree that others are merely the result of the Administration's lack of judgment, or of faith in our people. Only part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Pitched High | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

When Coach Valpey and his assistants returned to Cambridge early this month, they found Soldiers Field scorched and baked to a perfect hardness for breaking bones...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Look Brightens Soldiers Field | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

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