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Francis becomes the first Harvard frosh to notch a perfecto since Grant Blair in 1983, and the first in memory to record a shutout in his opening collegiate contest. Blair, who went on to become second-team All-America and lead the Crimson to the NCAA Finals in 1985, turned the trick three times his first season--against Yale, Brown and Northern Michigan...

Author: By Adam J. Epstein, | Title: Icemen Defy Preseason Expectations | 11/18/1987 | See Source »

...Manila last week a Filipino could clip a perfecto on whose gaudy band was a picture of President Sergio Osmeña, and light it from a match pack carrying the picture of fiery Manuel Roxas y Acuña. Over Manila streets and provincial roads, campaign banners fluttered from bamboo arches. Poster-covered jeeps careened through the towns. The first contested presidential election in Philippine history was at hand (April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Mud & Cigars | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

...prepared themselves to cushion any thank-you-ma'ams along that road -a slight, stooped Pennsylvania Irishman with grey hair frizzled in a permanent wave, Pat Boland of Scranton; and a short, old-fashioned general law practitioner, perfecto-puffing Luther Alexander Johnson of Corsicana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Debate's End | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...only one man knew how hot would be the words at that session. This was Labormaster John L. Lewis, the first-and next-to-last-witness. Solemnly and heavily he sat in the witness-chair, his coal-miner's pallor* heightened by his rumpled white suit, a Havana perfecto gripped deep in his big chops. In his usual low rumble he began to speak. Gradually the rumble rolled up into a basso roar as his jowls filled with rage. He pounded the committee-table till the ashtrays jumped, then exploded in a statement which will be remembered long after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: 25 Lousy Cents! | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...does Dr. Talmey set up Gloro as a rival to such synthetic or simplified languages as Esperanto, Volapuk, Ido, Novial, Occidental, Interlingua, Idiom Neural, Perfecto, Anglic (phonetic English), Basic (English with a restricted vocabulary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Gloro | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

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