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Word: perfects (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...requiring registration of all cartel arrangements; 2) set up a Board of International Trade to review and pass on the validity of the registrations; 3) allow the board to pass on all international commodity agreements. He concluded that thus, "where we cannot eliminate the cartels, we must gradually perfect new ways to make them into instruments which will serve the public interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARTELS: Fairyland of Oratory | 11/13/1944 | See Source »

...wish ... is that when normal conditions of tranquillity have been restored . . . the Greek people shall make, in perfect freedom, their own decision as to the form of government under which they desire to live. Pending such a decision, we naturally preserve our relations with the Greek Royal House and the existing constitutional Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Eden in Athens | 11/6/1944 | See Source »

Fiorello LaGuardia, New York City's bustling Mayor, acted as porter for a porterless woman at LaGuardia Field. Said she: "... a high compliment. . . . He is a perfect gentleman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Nov. 6, 1944 | 11/6/1944 | See Source »

...best man, arrived in Denver 48 hours late, having missed plane connections. Sitting on her lap, he gave his blessing to his new daughter-in-law, told reporters he was in love with 2nd Lieut. Cara Tinsley, an Army nurse now in England. Said he: "She's just perfect." He also heard that his ex-wife No. 3, Martha ("Mickey") Devine, onetime Vanities girl, had been sued by her ex-lawyer for failing to pay his fees for arranging the divorce which netted her "close to" $1,000,000 from Major Dodge. The lawyer claimed her debt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Nov. 6, 1944 | 11/6/1944 | See Source »

...There is also the difficulty that the clearest knowledge of what needs to be done does not carry with it the knowledge how to do it. Dickens describes our ruling classes as perfect masters of the art of How Not To Do It. But then, thinking themselves very well off as they are, they do not want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: From Shaw | 10/30/1944 | See Source »

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