Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To Charles John Robert Manners, tenth Duke of Rutland, 27, youngest of Britain's nonroyal dukes, and the Duchess of Rutland, 22, ex-Mayfair model, once known as "the girl with the perfect figure": their first child, a daughter; in London. Name: undecided. Weight...
Simian Yardlings and any of their colleagues living above the ground floor are expected to swing around on ropes in the Indoor Athletic Building sometime this week to perfect their abilities in using the Yard's unique fire-escape equipment...
...partially finished basketball season which will also be resumed after examinations, the Funsters and Bunnies are tied for the league lead with perfect records of four wins and no losses. The Deacons, with two wins against one loss. are in third slot, Dudley's Commuters holding down fourth place with a .600 percentage...
Blunden defends Shelley's first efforts at "Gothic" romances (he wrote several at Eton and Oxford) as honest, would-be commercial work; Horrid Novels were popular. Shelley enjoyed Oxford, holding his own there with what Blunden calls his "wickedly perfect politeness." He was really surprised and hurt when his love of epistolary arguments and pamphleteering got him expelled for printing a reasonable discussion on The Necessity of Atheism...
After smashing in a mailbox and getting the $65 check, Parkhurst would usually head for a liquor package, haber-dashery, or speciality shop in metropolitan Boston. With his brown hair neatly slicked back, and always nattily dressed, he gave the perfect appearance of a well-to-do college...