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Word: perfection (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Although it would doubtless have been difficult to use a full-size orchestra on the Sanders stage, surely more could have been done with the situation than this feeble quintet, which was forced to play against more than 170 voices. As it was, the instrumentalists present were far from perfect in tone or even pitch, and their weakness undermined the total effect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral | 3/24/1948 | See Source »

Miss Addison was distinctly the star of the evening. She sang her part well technically; but more than that she sang with perfect feeling for the sincere, restrained emotion characteristic of the Handel-Milton combination. Instead of the colorless clarity used for Handel by British sopranos like Isobel Baillie she brought a superb temperate richness to her part...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral | 3/24/1948 | See Source »

Judaism was once defined, by Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, as "a religion without mysteries or miracles, rational and self-evident ... in perfect harmony with modern science, criticism and philosophy, and in full sympathy with universal liberty, equality, justice, and charity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Hearts, Hats & Ham | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

Unbeaten in hockey, and with their full-strength "A" and "B" teams in squash boasting perfect records, the Elephants are more than satisfied to call it quits con ice and courts 'til next year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot Clinches Three Titles As Winter Sport Scene Ends | 3/12/1948 | See Source »

Captain Graham Taylor got off a perfect jump in the preliminaries, but fell on one of his official leaps, thereby marring chances for the victory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Skiers Top Yale at Williams Meet | 3/11/1948 | See Source »

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