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Word: perfectness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before finding out where he stood. But watchful eyes among the 300 afternoon spectators in Cleveland's vast Lake Side Auditorium spotted what was going on, and the murmur and commotion aroused McGeorge to what he had worked up to. He had eleven strikes. One more meant a perfect game. In all the 39 years of the A.B.C. competition, only five bowlers had rolled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Without a Miss | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

...member of the cast last year I can safely say that this is untrue. Mr. Lilley has made the show as nearly professional as possible. I suppose this is what is meant when your reviewer says it is "too-beautiful" and "too-perfect." This is neither a fault nor a violation of the "spirit of college theatricals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 3/30/1939 | See Source »

...things are distinctive of Leverett House they are its Glee Club and its liberalism. However, Kenneth B. Murdock, House Master, so fosters the spirit of complete independence of its members from compulsion to take part in House activities that neither a clenched fist nor a perfect baritone are prerequisites for admittance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Characteristics Of Kirkland and Leverett Related | 3/29/1939 | See Source »

...exaggerated rhumba of Charles D. Dyer III '39 and Peter Pratt '40 that the play derives its humor. And it must be said that these specialties, and particularly a conversation which John Johansen '39 carries on with a cow, come as a welcome relief from the almost too-perfect, too-beautiful body of the play, which in places occasions the audience a little embarrassment...

Author: By C. L. B., | Title: The Playgoer | 3/28/1939 | See Source »

Since only the addition of another House can be regarded as a cure-all, the proposals in the Report are by no means perfect solutions. But, until this panacea can be obtained, the House Masters should be urged to adopt these measures to alleviate the present deplorable situation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UP TO THE MASTERS | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

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