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Word: perfects (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Honking motorcades, truckloads of young street sheiks making faces and tooting horns, brought to a close last week the last of the Purge primaries, in New York's 16th or "Gashouse" Congressional district, Manhattan. It had been the perfect picture of a Tammany fight, with plenty of mud-slinging at the finish, between two Irishmen alike as two of Paddy's pigs in outlook except that one of them had been cursed by Franklin Roosevelt for breaking out of the New Deal pen and the other had promised to be good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Gashouse Finale | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

Premier-General. How the hard, resolute Czech people would react in a crisis was shrewdly guessed by Psychologist Dr. Benes, and with perfect confidence he left it to them to mill spontaneously through the streets of Prague in monster demonstrations which finally reached 250,000, shouting and screaming hour after hour "Give us arms! We want to fight! Don't yield a centimeter! Give us Syrovy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: 2,000,000 Sons of Death | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

Mozart: Don Giovanni (Glyndebourne Festival Opera Company, Fritz Busch conducting; Victor: 3 volumes, 46 sides). Though issued last spring to record-collectors, the Glyndebourne recording of Mozart's greatest opera waited until this month for its official release. Perfect teamwork and exquisitely styled singing by Baritone John Brownlee and Soprano Louise Helletsgruber help to make it the year's most notable record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: October Records | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

...important English example is a perfect copy of Caxton's "Royal Book", dated about 1487. Noteworthy among the Spanish collectors items is the "Usatges do Barcelona e Constituciones do Catalunya", printed at Bareelona about 1495. Among the Portuguese incunabula is a Hebrew Bible, dated in Lisbon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chinese Engraving Made In 974 A.D. Is Owned By Widener-- Greene Found It | 10/1/1938 | See Source »

...Living Grammar makes short work of the attribute complement, the subjunctive mood, the future perfect tense. Say the authors: "Why should anyone be tense about tense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EDUCATION: Living Grammar | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

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