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Word: perfects (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would have been only common tact and consistency, after refusing to accept his original offer in such uncompromising terms, to have deleted his name from the list of graduates to whom the letter was to be sent. Though presumably caused by a mere clerical oversight, the incident was a perfect example of how not to treat a publicity-seeking politician, especially when he happens to be "so closely associated with the leadership" of a great and proud nation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HANFSTAENGL | 2/13/1936 | See Source »

...Like Mine? ... I was a sickly, skinny run-down weakling, weighing only 97 pounds. I finally got fed up with being bullied around and looked down on. THEN-I discovered my amazing secret of Dynamic Tension! This natural principle quickly developed me from a no-account runt to a perfect specimen who holds the international title 'The World's Most Perfectly Developed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Cuff-Links Gang | 2/10/1936 | See Source »

...TIME, Jan. 20). Splashing full-page displays in many a newspaper, the company blazoned: TRIBUTE TO A PERFECT RECORD OF THE RAILROADS. Next day the record for 1936 was spoiled when The Williamsporter, crack Reading Railway System Express, jumped the track near Sunbury, Pa., killed one passenger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Record Wrecked | 2/10/1936 | See Source »

This, of course, is much the most logical solution to the age problem. But it will take more than perfect logic to convince the private schools to give up their boys a year earlier; they have a vested interest, backed by all the weight of tradition, in that seventeenth year, and will not quickly give...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEAN LEIGHTON'S REPORT | 2/5/1936 | See Source »

Libbey-Owens-Ford (along with Pittsburgh Plate) also manufactures invisible glass. Invisible glass is not really invisible, but when properly set up in a show window it does produce the illusion of invisibility. If glass were a perfect transmitter of light, all glass would be invisible. But glass is not perfectly transparent. Some of the light rays which strike it are reflected back to the eye of the observer. Invisible glass is curved in such a way that the reflected light is sent upwards and downwards into black velvet pads which completely absorb it. Since no light gets back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Glass Week | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

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