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Word: perfects (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doctors - lies in its superimposed illustrations: turning the pages is like peeling off slices of the eye and parts of its socket, layer upon layer, until all that remains is bare bone. The book consists of five-color transparencies printed on heavy Cellophane and laid on one another in perfect register. On the top Cellophane page appears a serene brown eye, surrounded by part of a nose, cheek and forehead. Turning the page pulls the skin off. Its under side shows on the back of the page, the skinless eye appears on the page following...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Peeling an Eye | 2/7/1944 | See Source »

Representative Vorys warned: "Most of you will not be able to understand this great, elaborate, detailed mechanism by merely closing your eyes and taking a deep breath. You have got to study [it]. . . . While this is not perfect . . . it is our responsibility to give it a chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: First Venture | 1/31/1944 | See Source »

...Impressed by his relaxed good nature, his evident simplicity, the eager "yes, yes" and "uh-huh, uh-huh" with which he indicates earnest interest in everything they have to say, his visitors often begin to fit him into a scheme of history. They see him not merely as a perfect political candidate, but as the forerunner in U.S. politics of a new era of friendly men to succeed the recent era of angry men-the era of the Burt Wheelers, the Fiorello LaGuardias, the Huey Longs, the Harold Ickeses and the Culbert Olsons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Man of the West | 1/31/1944 | See Source »

Hospital Bound. Charles, leading a strafing attack over the nearby Marshalls, ran into ack-ack. Windshield and instrument panel exploded and more than 200 particles of glass and metal were driven into his face and body. Blinded in one eye and drenched with blood, Charles made a perfect landing on his carrier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - HEROES: The Indestructibies | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

...Lane, Oxie is "the perfect answer for a newspaperman; he can't be scooped because he knows everything. He is the voice of the people west of the tracks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: From West of the Tracks | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

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