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Word: perfection (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their choice. The mission urged the U.S. to make all German secondary schools tuition-free, root out the old caste distinctions. Said the report: "This system has cultivated attitudes of superiority in one small group and inferiority in the majority of the members of German society, making [them perfect material] upon which authoritarian leadership has thrived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: School among the Ruins | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

...Germany. Later that evening I made my newsdealer swear to save TIME for me for the rest of my life. Today the familiar cover of TIME glowed from Berlin newsstands, and in a few hours all copies were sold out. In the subway I entered into conversation with perfect strangers simply because they carried a copy of TIME under an arm, or were reading it. It was as though we were old friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 21, 1946 | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

Before either of its two competitors tallied the Rams sent six men across the finish line for a perfect score of 15. Connecticut and the Mikkolamen put in a close race for second place, but the Huskies brought home the bacon with a score of 57 to the Crimson's 62. In the Jayvee race the harriers pulled in with a strong second, scoring 36 to Rhode Island...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Downed By Ram Harriers In Contest Here | 10/19/1946 | See Source »

...wasn't until after I had read this that I realized how bad my eyesight had become. I promptly went to see a doctor who found I had perfect vision but recommended a pink boric acid eyewash morning and night. He also gave me some medicine for my liver, which had become enlarged and inflamed due to too much riding over Donbas roads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: On the Road Back | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

...there any frustrated after-dinner orators in the house? Or would-be ladies' club lecturers? Phillips Brooks House offers the perfect answer to these ambitions in its Speakers and Entertainers Committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBH Enlists Orators To Lecture Newsboys, Ladies, Wellesley Girls | 10/11/1946 | See Source »

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