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Word: perfection (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the curtain rises on the second play, however, most of the faults of the earlier sketch are soon forgotten. Not that this second play, Across the Board on Tomorrow Morning, is perfect. Set in a New York restaurant, it too has no discernible plot and merely states some fairly vague ideas on the nature of reality. But the skill of the actors makes a play which might well have been tedious into amusing and sometimes though-provoking entertainment...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: Evening With Saroyan | 12/9/1955 | See Source »

...Regretfully" accepted the resignation of Assistant Commerce Secretary Lothair Teetor. praising his "diligence and talent." Teetor announced last May that he would soon return to his family's Indiana piston-ring business, the Perfect Circle Corp., scene of a violent C.I.O. strike since last July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Administration Lift | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

...rhymes and songs that have been the unwitting introduction to literature for English-speaking children everywhere. Now the Opies have followed up with The Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book, which packs 800 rhymes, ballads, riddles and trippers, as well as hundreds of woodcuts that are almost always perfect companions to the text...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Little Beauties | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

...Dance Group featured expressive dancing and imaginative choreography by Adele Logan and Ruth Emerson. All of the dancers moved gracefully. Most of the girls have not yet attained perfect control, but their muscular coordination was surprisingly good. Anne Wallace, Karen Wilk, and Katherine Beer in particular danced very stylishly...

Author: By Stephen Addiss, | Title: The Radcliffe Dance Group and The Radcliffe Choral Society | 12/3/1955 | See Source »

...agreement stated that since "there is no further basis for any substantial ideological differences between the two organizations, it is therefore in the interest of a more perfect expression of conservatism at this University that an effective unification of the two organizations be effected...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Conservative Club, H.C.L. Join After Tie Voting | 12/2/1955 | See Source »

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