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Word: perfects (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Showing the same bran of ball which had enabled them to win 19 straight victories, Captain Art Johns' Freshman baseball team defeated Yale 8-6 at New Haven Saturday in the objective game of the season. This win gave the Yearlings the almost perfect slate of 20 victories and one tie, the best Freshman baseball record in years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN NINE BEATS YALE FOR 20TH VICTORY | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

Those small currents kill by causing ventricular fibrillation. Normally the fibres of the muscle of the heart contract and relax in perfect rhythm, like a complex machine whose parts are all working in unison. In fibrillation the muscle fibres start to flutter independently of each other, thus stopping the heart's organized pulsations. This condition in electric shock, according to Mr. Ferris, "results from an abnormal stimulation rather than from damage to the heart. In the fibrillating condition, the heart seems to quiver rather than to beat; no heart sounds can be heard with a stethoscope; the pumping action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Shocked Hearts | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

...envelopes which were to be kept sealed lest the mitzvah turn into a "curse." Protested Miss Berd, charged with grand larceny: "Everything is a frame-up. You see I am smiling, so I have nothing to worry about. Whatever I did I did for the best. Everything is 100% perfect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: 100% Perfect | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

...Joseph E. Widener's bay colt of doubtful paternity* had equaled the world record for a mile and a furlong. Of the six races Brevity had entered, he had won five. With a winter's training in Florida behind him, the handsome three-year-old was in perfect trim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Churchill Downs | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

...pest of spectroscopists is "ghosts" or false spectrum lines which appear because the grating is not absolutely perfect. In the Wood gratings the ghost lines are so reduced in strength that they are easy to identify and ignore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Academicians | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

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