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Word: perfection (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prosecution had attempted to establish the identity of the defendants "in a truly unusual and novel fashion." He said that if the prosecution wanted to establish that all the defendants were actually in the building without identifying them individually, it would have to establish the existence of "a perfect and infallible net" around those taken from the building and put into the vans...

Author: By Michael E. Kinsley, | Title: Verdict Is Expected Today In University Hall Trial | 5/1/1969 | See Source »

...essentially trivial. There really is not way of getting around it. Dylan seems too happy to be able to create masterpieces and one is glad only for his sake. There will be more records in the future, no doubt, but will they not be like Nashville Skyline, pleasant an perfect but low-level? And to think I almost didn't believe once the old saw that artists have to suffer or they're not artists...

Author: By Salahuddin I. Imam, | Title: Bob Dylan Revisited | 4/30/1969 | See Source »

...exam boycott is in several ways a perfect tactic. It is disruptive, of course, but it disrupts only its object. No classes will be interfered with, no learning will in any way be curtailed. A boycott has the further virtue of embodying both the petition and the implementation of radical academic change. An effective exam boycott would not only urge the Administration formally to abolish exams, but would in reality be effecting such abolition unilaterally, since the Administration would have no way of counteracting the boycott short of failing the entire student body, which would be inherently meaningless...

Author: By David I. Bruck, | Title: A Proposal Concerning Exams | 4/28/1969 | See Source »

Once again Crimson coach Harry Parker elected to use the heavier Pocock shell instead of the varsity's regular Stampfli. An eight-knot tail wind which made the Charles too choppy for the Stampfli was the only factor marring near perfect rowing conditions...

Author: By Peter D. Lennon, | Title: Heavies Crush Princeton; Lights Sink Navy | 4/28/1969 | See Source »

...perfect day for the other Harvard crews. The freshman heavies crushed Princeton by four lengths and M.I.T. by five, and the J.V.'s rowed to a near three-boat margin over another tame Tiger boat. Once again, the Techmen finished third...

Author: By Peter D. Lennon, | Title: Heavies Crush Princeton; Lights Sink Navy | 4/28/1969 | See Source »

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