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Word: perfects (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...windshield wiper for eyeglasses (originally introduced by Comic Ed Wynn, in The Perfect Fool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Path of Progress | 5/1/1944 | See Source »

Lieut. James Holmlund and his six radiomen had labored three months to get JJRP going. They built their transmitter out of spare parts brought in from all over the world. This week's practically perfect results were worth the effort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Jig Jig Roger Peter | 5/1/1944 | See Source »

...younger than herself. She fed him. "He had fed stooping over the food on the bench, eating very much in the manner of a ravenous animal. . . . Now he lifted his head, and Frossia saw a face as flawlessly chiseled as any she had ever imagined, skin and muscle clothing perfect bone work of chin, cheek and forehead. The straight thin nose, the large sherry-colored eyes ... all suggested breeding. Yet the mouth hung loosely, the eyes were twin pools of despair, and now that they were looking at her, something like a sneer crept into them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia Revisited | 5/1/1944 | See Source »

...drew near, crushing responsibility settled back upon the handful of top commanders. For the Germans, it fell most heavily on two field marshals, able hoodlum Erwin Rommel and able Junker Gerd von Rundstedt. They were hard at work on their checkup of garrisons, driving their staffs to perfect the plans for the 50-odd divisions they will have in the West on Dday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Doughboy's General | 5/1/1944 | See Source »

...line on Schireson, the Record sent a patient to consult him about making her neck prettier. She found a "heavyset man, sixtyish in appearance, dressed in youthful tweeds. His ready smile revealed excellent bridge-work." He said that a neck treatment would merely give her "a perfect neck, a throat of vibrant youth, topped by an aged face." She should have "a complete rotary reconstruction" to make her face as beautiful as her eyes. "Your eyes alone," said Schireson, "would be the dream of any plastic surgeon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: King of Quacks | 5/1/1944 | See Source »

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