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Word: perfects (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pure hokum, which has been often imitated but never successfully copied since they brought it to the screen in It Happened One Night. This time, in Clarence Budington Kelland's ingenious story about the misfortunes of a humble young man who inherits $20,000,000, they have a perfect show case for their specialty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures: Apr. 27, 1936 | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

...person is to blame for this singularly unfortunate situation. Rather, it seems to represent an uncertainty of policy, policy which originated some time ago, as to just what this department is trying to accomplish. The ideal solution is of course the perfect combination of good teacher and good research man. It is a little hard on the keen and hard-working student to have to hold the test-tube in which the Administration is trying to shake up this perfect solution. The experiment must produce results soon, or the complete disintegration of this field, which at present is no more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AND BADLY TEACH | 4/25/1936 | See Source »

...Saint Matthew Passion" falls into about twenty-four scenes, twelve small ones, indicated by chorales, and twelve larger ones, marked by arias. The problem of representing the action of the Passion and at the same time of giving due weight to the devotional element is solved in the most perfect way imaginable. The more we realize the dramatic plan of the "Saint Matthew Passion", the more we are convinced that it is a master piece...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society to Sing Under Dr. Koussevitzky in the "St. Matthew Passion" | 4/23/1936 | See Source »

Baba. The U. S. four years ago was fascinated by the arrival of a long-haired, silky-mustached Parsee named Shri Sadgaru Meher Baba (TIME, May 2, 1932). Called the "God Man," the "Messiah," the "Perfect Master," Meher Baba never speaks. The God Man claims to have been strictly silent since 1925, carries a little alphabet board on which he deftly spells his mute revelations (see cut, p. 37), among which is the declaration that he is in an "infinite state." He became that way, he says, after kissing an ancient holy woman named Hazrat Babajan, remaining in a coma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Men, Masters & Messiahs | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

...Five Honolulu bowlers with a feeble 2,679 total did little to justify their long trip. Indiana's Governor Paul Vories McNutt, opening the Congress, was lucky to bowl a preposterously low score of 87. After 97,000 games had been rolled, no bowler had made a perfect score (300 points). A. B. C. delegates voted to hold the 1937 Congress in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A. B. C. Congress | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

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