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Word: perfects (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...depends on effective consumer demand. You can't have consumer demand if inflation has wiped out savings and undermined purchasing power. What you have in its place is government regimentation, indefinite deficit financing, and a popular demand for high tariffs that can only throttle international reconstruction and provide the perfect embryo of another...

Author: By G. R. C., | Title: BRASS TACKS | 3/5/1942 | See Source »

These and other tricks had long been known to the U.S. Army & Navy. But the Japanese applied them with perfect coordination of land, sea and air forces. The War Department seemed to consider the Japanese technique worth pondering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Technique of Invasion | 3/2/1942 | See Source »

...perfect pearl, formed not in an oyster but in a coconut, was exhibited last week in Florida by Botanist David Fairchild. One of a dozen found in 9,000,000 East Indian coconuts, the pearl began (scientists believe) when a sprout was unable to force its way through one of the three pores in a germinating nut. Like a sand grain in an oyster, the sprout was then encrusted with layers of calcium carbonate-even though chemists have never found this compound in either the nut's milk or kernel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Forest Pearl | 3/2/1942 | See Source »

...only addition to the Yard in the last decade, the new library fulfills the University's need for a suitable location for its treasure items. The six-story Georgian building in the east corner of the Yard has been widely acclaimed as the nearest perfect existing structure for its purpose, even surpassing the National Archives in Washington...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOUGHTON LIBRARY, FIRST NEW YARD EDIFICE IN LAST TEN YEARS, WILL BE DEDICATED TONIGHT | 2/28/1942 | See Source »

Brown stressed that this high-scoring team could hardly be considered the perfect quintet since he has not had the chance to watch some of the outstanding players on teams that the Varsity hoopsters have not opposed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EARL BROWN PICKS ALL-EAST CAGERS | 2/27/1942 | See Source »

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