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Word: perfection (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...famous plane, and Sikorsky's four-engine Clippers were blazing Pan American's transoceanic routes on both the Atlantic and the Pacific. Sikorsky did not rest on his laurels. He rose at a meeting of United's operating committee, bowed and calmly announced that the time had come to perfect the helicopter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Uncle Igor & the Chinese Top | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

...Solid Gold Cadillac (by Howard Teichmann & George S. Kaufman) is at best goldplated, but that still leaves it considerably brighter than most current Broadway comedies. Furthermore, it proves a perfect vehicle for Josephine Hull, who exhibits her best You Can't Take It With You and Arsenic and Old Lace manner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Nov. 16, 1953 | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

...came in for Lowenstein. Clasby was stopped, but Culver took a Clasby pitchout six yards. On the next play Culver pitched out to Clasby, who drove wide for eight yards to the 11. After two plays gained little, Lowenstein came back in for Clasby and fired a ten yard perfect pass to Conzelman on the goal line. Lowenstein kicked the point to make the score...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: Eleven Ends Desperate Bruin Surge On Goal Line to Win 27-20 Victory | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

...want to root around and brood for a while, it is possible to conclude that the picture isn't quite perfect. Which it isn't. Not quite. But I doubt if that's going to bother anyone. As an immediate experience it is overpowering; as a lasting work of art it is memorable...

Author: By Michael J. Haiberstam, | Title: From Here to Eternity | 11/13/1953 | See Source »

...Threatening snow and chilly wind strung their cheeks as they walked through the Yard. Dinner was the answer to the cold. What to eat? Everyone had steak last night. How about chicken? No, everyone eats chicken on Sunday. Ah spaghetti and a bottle of chanti with spumoni for desert. Perfect. Menu settled, they lean forward in intimate friendship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Weekend Quietly Ends With Wine, Music As November Winds Keep Couples Indoors | 11/13/1953 | See Source »

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