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Word: perfection (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard's basketball team won its first Ivy League game last night. The quintet crumpled Columbia, 82-73, inspired by the slick passing and near-perfect foul shooting of third-string guard Ric Gustavson...

Author: By Joel R. Kramer, | Title: Harvard Five Tops Lions, 82-73, For First Victory of Ivy Season | 2/11/1967 | See Source »

...should be ready with preprogrammed manufacturing processes that will require the vacuum and weightlessness of space. Joining some of the newer, tougher metals, for example, is a devilishly difficult problem on earth. In orbit, outside any artificial atmosphere, some of them need only be touched together to make a perfect weld...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: WHY SHOULD MAN GO TO THE MOON? | 2/10/1967 | See Source »

...whole new generation, the Hiss-Chambers case is only a dim memory or a hearsay mystery, but it retains its historical significance and fascination. If one assumes that Hiss was guilty, his behavior made perfect sense; by his denial of the charges against him, he was trying to hide his Communist past. But if one assumes that Hiss was innocent, the behavior of his accuser, Whittaker Chambers, made no sense at all; what could his motive have been for accusing an innocent man? The only plausible answer: he must have been mad. From the start, people who could not accept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Slander of a Dead Man | 2/10/1967 | See Source »

Tennant's huge perfect coil gained him undisputed victory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Pre-Fab Blizzard' Wins Quincy Paper Plane Test | 2/10/1967 | See Source »

GAMBIT. The perfect crime in this frenetic suspense comedy is described twice- first, as a criminal imagines it will happen; second, as it actually happens. Both times around, Michael Caine plays the crook and Shirley MacLaine his accomplice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Feb. 3, 1967 | 2/3/1967 | See Source »

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