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Word: perfects (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Action. Mr. Barkley, while traveling 1,500 miles a week and speaking five or six times a day, mostly keeps his coat on, preserves his dignity, discusses his record (99% perfect) as a Roosevelt supporter, reiterates Franklin Roosevelt's appeal for his return. His meetings open with "America." His introducers refer to him as "the next President of the United States." From the platform, Almighty God is frequently invoked in his behalf. A typical Barkley exhortation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENTUCKY: The Roosevelt Handicap | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

...broaden the law so as to allow reputable surgeons to use their own discretion in terminating pregnancies in special cases. A large share of British medical opinion agreed that a test case should be made to bring the law before the courts. Two-and-a-half months ago the perfect test case appeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Test Case | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

...thermodynamics states that at absolute zero there must be no entropy. The particles have two kinds of motion, random motion due to the external energy of heat, and their own intrinsic motion. Thus, at absolute zero the random heat motion is obliterated and the intrinsic motion would thus be perfect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cryogenics | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

...Arthur D. Little, Inc.'s Industrial Bulletin (chemical news and scientific miscellany), who discussed the British dew ponds in last week's issue and gave an explanation of the heat economy which makes them possible. "Recent research," said the Bulletin, "has shown that water is nearly perfect as a 'black body' or a body that easily gives off heat by radiation." The pond must keep cool so that dew will condense in it, and so that it will not lose much water by evaporation. If it is insulated, it will not absorb much heat from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dew Ponds | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

...these ideas into print is Fitch's, now preparing a book. Meanwhile, Associate Professor Gilbert Harold of the University of Oklahoma produced a book called Bond Ratings as an Investment Guide, concluded: "The ratings operate quite effectively to protect the investor against loss. . . . The record is not perfect . . . but it is certainly beyond reasonable criticism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bond Battles | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

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