Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Seattle last week Dr. Stevenson Smith, University of Washington psychology professor, delighted colleagues and students by showing them a complicated "mechanical rat" which he and a helper had worked five years to perfect. Living rats, especially white ones, are favorites with animal psychologists who teach them to traverse complex mazes bristling with blind alleys, studying the effect on maze-learning of food, light, electric shock, drugs, blasts...
...David Paul. Camden, N. J. bank messenger, disappeared with $40.000, was thought to have run away until his lack of preparation for flight seemed suspicious. Detective Parker found that Paul was murdered by old cronies whose crime was almost perfect...
...Milwaukee, the Wisconsin State Fair featured the nation's greatest dairy cattle show, a children's milk-drinking contest for the first 1,000 arrivals, a two-ton cheese rated 93% perfect, and an attendance which topped the 1921 high...
...Realmleader was distressed at reports of misconduct by "The Perfect Nazi," Juergen Ohlsen. Two years ago Herr Ohlsen was picked as the perfect German racial type, starred as the hero of a Nazi propaganda film, The Hitler Lad Quex, who was supposed to epitomize all Nazi virtues. Last week Juergen ("Quex") Ohlsen faced prompt expulsion from the Hitler Youth Organization for playing tennis regularly with...
...counteract the setback to air travel caused by the deaths of Will Rogers and Wiley Post, Arthur Brisbane hopped off from Newark on his first transcontinental flight. From Cleveland he wrote, ''The stewardess-hostess-trained nurse, who is here to take care of you, has perfect teeth, very fine yellow-grey eyes and a green dress." Said he upon landing at San Francisco, ''Flying is reading the country by the page while land travel is spelling out the letters...