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Word: perfects (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harry Grindell-Matthews, 57, inventor of the "death ray," which knocked out a cow 200 yards distant at its first British War Office tests; in London. The bride went on her honeymoon alone, while the investor rushed to his Clydach, Wales laboratory (fenced with electrified wire) to perfect an aerial torpedo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 7, 1938 | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

Paced by the perfect performances of Elaine Fraser and Arthur Cantor in a Harvard-Radcliffe team of six men and two women yesterday outspelled a similarly composed Oxford aggregation in a radio bee broadcast over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD RALLIES IN FOURTH ROUND TO WIN RADIO BEE | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

Norris Houghton has designed a perfect setting for melodrama, a mid-Victorian living room encrusted with gimcracks and statues, any one of which might inspire crime. But Stop-Over, after a good takeoff, gets bogged in its own dull subplots. Its chief actor, Blackmer, is left stranded with nothing to do but make wry cracks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 24, 1938 | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

...will eventually become toothless. But he went on, it is quite as logical to suppose that with increasing knowledge of the factors which influence dental development and with control of the wide spread diseases, caries and pyorrhea, we may look forward to a time when all men will have perfect teeth lasting a full life time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Utopis of Men All With Teeth In Perfect Shape May Come | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

Charles Boyer, as the Emperor, is excellent. Actually, however, it is the sensitive acting of Greta Garbo which enhances the value of Mr. Boyer's portrayal. As the Countess Marie Walweska, with whom Napoleon falls deeply in love, she is a perfect foil for her leading...

Author: By W. R. F., | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 1/21/1938 | See Source »

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