Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Their four dual meet victories and triumph over six other schools in the Greater Boston championships give the Yardlings a perfect 5-0 record going into the season's finale at Yale Saturday...
...victory enabled Harvard to finish its Greater Boston League season undefeated in six games. Harvard needed a perfect record to edge Boston University, 7-1, for the league title...
...general showed slippage in almost every sector of France. His traditional centers of strength in Alsace-Lorraine and Brittany still produced affirmative votes of 58% and 57% respectively, but the totals were less than in previous elections. The tiny village of Briare (TIME, April 25), a near-perfect voting profile of France in the six previous elections, lost its sole distinction in the seventh by voting 54% in favor of the referendum?almost the mirror opposite of France's 53% rejection. The city of Paris turned down the referendum 56% to 44%, and it could not win a majority even...
...years ago, of course, the word would have been perfect. Everyone understood exactly what it meant back then, and everyone would have considered it powerful enough--even shockingly so--for the situation above...
...overwhelming 15 to 18 events, the varsity track team rolled to a surprisingly easy 111-43 victory over Princeton Saturday at Soldier's Field. The triumph raised Harvard's outdoor record to 4-0 in dual meets, with only the May 17 Yale meet separating the Crimson from a perfect season...