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Word: perfections (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lonely traveler dreading my first Remarked, "I am all my second. My third is coming, I fear the worst, on a friendly second I reckoned." And then a smile o'er his features stole For he heard the perfect voice of my whole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pa's Puzzles | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

...which were inflated with hydrogen, and the balloonist barely managed to scramble down the tree before the gondola was enveloped in flames. Somewhat shaken but unhurt except for scratches and bruises, he sent a classic telegram to Mrs. Piccard, herself a stratosphere veteran: "Landed safely, Lansing, Iowa. Balloon under perfect control. All equipment burned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Perfect Control | 7/26/1937 | See Source »

...McKean Islands and Carondelet Reef, saw nothing but ruined guano works and the wreck of a tramp freighter. Thousands of startled seabirds fluttered up, menacing the propellers and forcing the flyers to climb. Some days equatorial squalls and vanishing visibility crippled the hunt, but on others the weather was perfect, visibility unlimited. By week's end the Colorado's planes had scanned more than 100,000 square miles. The Itasca, which inaugurated the search last fortnight, continued its futile patrol until fuel ran short. The minesweeper Swan put ashore a searching party at Canton Island, where last month a party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amelia Earhart - One in a Million | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

...country." Aside from the fact that loyalty to employers is not mentioned in the U. S. version out of deference to such organizations as John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers, who at one time looked askance at the Scouts, the difference is typical. Otherwise the parallelism is perfect through all the first nine Scout laws (Trustworthiness, Loyalty, Helpfulness ["at least one good turn every day"], Friendliness, Courtesy, Kindness to Animals, Obedience, Cheerfulness, Thrift). But the U. S. Scouts added three laws of their own. U. S. Romanticism required the tenth law: "a Scout is Brave"; U. S. sanitation required...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCOUTS: National Jamboree | 7/12/1937 | See Source »

...York's Floyd Bennett Field, Edward Somers, 12-year-old son of Brooklyn Congressman Andrew L. Somers, stepped into an airplane, took off for a 15-min. solo flight, then made a perfect three-point landing. The Bureau of Air Commerce, which prohibits persons under 16 from piloting airplanes, promptly started to investigate and discovered that Edward had an illegal student's permit. While Edward was packed off to his grandfather's, his father, a War pilot, admitted: "Frankly, I tried to get the Air Bureau here to waive the age limit but the Bureau refused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 5, 1937 | 7/5/1937 | See Source »

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