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Word: perfections (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Republicans from the expected fury of Madrid's proletariat. Dressed always in proletarian blue overalls, Premier Largo Caballero was said to be holding President Azaña virtually a prisoner. Desperate, the Spanish Cabinet issued a manifesto appealing to the "people of Madrid" to somewhat paradoxically "organize and perfect the defense of the Capital, so as to be prepared for somethings even so incredible as the capture of Madrid by the Rebels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Crumbling Republic | 10/5/1936 | See Source »

...Model for the Field Museum's typical Nordic male was a professional from Brooklyn, N. Y. Commended on his perfect muscular development, he replied: "I've won all the cups they offer for the best body proportions . . . so I decided to make a book of the best photographs that have been taken of me. Now the book has such a sale I don't have to work any more. . . . The girls call me 'God's Gift to Women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Tales of Hoffman | 10/5/1936 | See Source »

...modern giro is completely wingless, is merely a fuselage with a propeller, a tail, a direct-control rotor. The pilot sets the giro's course by tilting the rotor. In the "readable" model the engine for the first time is behind and below the pilot. This gives him perfect vision on the highway, better balance in the air. By a simple clutch, he can apply power either to the single wheel at the rear or to the propeller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Readable Giro | 10/5/1936 | See Source »

Paragraph 5. "We desire to record our considered opinion that the representatives of Imperial Airways have behaved throughout with perfect propriety. The action taken by them has been dictated by a jealous regard for the honour of the Company and the maintenance of public integrity, and sprang only from a natural apprehension lest the barest suspicion should arise that the relations between the Company and His Majesty's Government had been influenced by individual and personal interests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 28, 1936 | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

...maximum enjoyment on the minimum effort" is its slogan. "All you have to be able to do is play a note." The genius of the directors is so great that only two rehearsals during the week suffice to make perfect the maneuvers and music at Saturday football games...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BAND PRACTICE OPENS FOR NEW MEN TUESDAY | 9/26/1936 | See Source »

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