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Word: perfectly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...impulse nature of this kind of store is perfect for the Square. Popcorn and candy are impulse goods, and this is a prime area for such a store because of the high traffic," said Barnett...

Author: By Elsa C. Arnett, | Title: New Shop Boasts Blue-Rasberry Popcorn | 12/16/1986 | See Source »

...good thing that can be said of staid morality, however, is that it is the perfect target for parody--a fact that did not escape the wittier Victorians. Some of the brightest comedy ever written--for example, Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest--was forged during this era of moral gloom...

Author: By Jeffrey J. Wise, | Title: A Victorian Big-Budget Spectacular | 12/12/1986 | See Source »

Other useful attachments are grammatical checkers and outlining programs. Grammatical checkers can discover some incorrect syntax, although they are far from perfect. Outlining programs allow authors to develop outlines for essays and to then modify an essay's structure by experimenting with various alternative outlines (again, look for an upcoming Hacker column on this...

Author: By Evan O. Grossman, | Title: Literary Hacker Strikes: Writing With a PC | 12/10/1986 | See Source »

...Harvard's eighth win against no losses this year and gave the Crimson perfect marks in the ECAC (8-0) and the Ivy League (6-0). The Crimson, six points in front of second-place Yale (5-1) in the ECAC, is off to its best start since the 1936-'37 season, when Harvard began its season with a 13-0 slate...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Icemen Chew Up, Spit Out Big Red, 6-3 | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

Inside, the elephant seemed perfect, down to the last coat of beige paint on the last iron rosette in its immense barrel vault, arching a hundred feet above the floor. The minute hand of its floriated and gilded clock, one of the largest in France, which since 1900 had declared the time to generations of anxious travelers, now moved in sedate jerks toward apotheosis. The Manets were in place. From the bay of Courbets, dense and dark, impacted with reality, one could look across the nave to their diametric opposite, Thomas Couture's pedantic warning to the Third Empire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Out of a Grand Ruin, a Great Museum | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

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