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Word: perfection (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sorry, and so will the customers, as the script strangles them slowly with the husband's apron strings. Now and then, though, that wonderfully funny man lets everybody up for air with a perfect piece of Tomfoolery. What is finally funny about Ewell, though, is not what he does but what he is. He is all the guys who live next door rolled into one, and that one seems to be himself. However, anybody who thinks his act is as natural as it looks will probably believe that clipper ships just naturally sail into bottles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 30, 1956 | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

...with the cyst made a perfect recovery, left the hospital in three days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Operation Dialogue | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

Sister, farewell, and remember that modesty, as it makes the most homely virgin amiable and charming, so the want of it renders the most perfect beauty disagreeable and odious. But when that brightest of female virtues shines among other perfections of body and mind in the same person, it makes the woman more lovely than an angel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: FROM BEN'S LETTERS | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

...neighbor's of Brewery Cashier George J. Brueckner wondered how, on take-home pay of $87 weekly, he managed to own two cars, keep a daughter in college, and plunk down $23,000 in cash for a house. The answer: he withheld receipts sent to the brewery to perfect his own "unbeatable" system of betting on the horses, but contrived to balance the company books at the end of each month. Finally, the shortage reached $125,000 and Brueckner could cover up no more. He confessed, and was sentenced to prison for embezzlement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANAGEMENT: Case of the Missing Funds | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

...Then what is the idea of a perfect husband or wife for a Keie student? For a man, future wife must love her husband heart and soul. She must be a woman of good tastes. And she must be beautiful and healthy and naive at the same time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MYSTERIOUS EAST | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

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