Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...overwhelming majority of U.S. farmers the outlook was fabulously bright. The Agriculture Department reported mounting damage by drought to crops in the East Central states, but for most of the U.S. the weather had been near-perfect and yields were high. In Montana-as in Canada-last week a roaring wind-&-hail storm streaked for 100 miles through the southeastern counties, ripped barns to kindling, and flattened fields of wheat just as the dumfounded farmers were ready to thresh. Estimated loss: 2½ million bushels of wheat...
Sirs: ... I am interested in the young lady with the phenomenal teeth [TIME, July 17]. Though I do not profess to know what Dr. Barker might mean by "all the specifications,'' I do know that my teeth seem to be nearly perfect, and are considered quite unusual by my dentist. Contrary to the experience of Miss Price, however, I have always liked candy, ice cream, pie, and fruit, and have consumed plenty in my lifetime! IDA D. RICHARDS...
...Barker's specifications: "absolutely free from dental caries [decay] ... sized, shaped and set true and properly in the dental arch . . . proper shade, colorings and translucence to blend perfectly with the surrounding gum tissue, the eyes, hair and complexion . . . perfect cusps, grooves, pits, fissures and marginal ridges...
Even though Pisa and Florence were monuments of European culture they were astride a military line, and that line the Germans were bent on holding if they could. Through both cities the Arno flowed between masonry banks, making it a perfect tank trap and barrier to infantry. The Allies held the south bank, the Germans the north. So the war in Italy became a peculiar kind of delicate slugging match among the museums, with world-famous art in no man's land...
Killed in Action. Squadron Leader Lord David Douglas-Hamilton, 32, youngest brother of the boxing Duke of Hamilton, husband of Physical Culturist Prunella Stack, Britain's "Perfect Girl," with whom he toured England preaching wartime physical fitness...