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Word: perfects (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Undefeated, the Freshman basketball team takes to the floor tonight in an effort to preserve their perfect slate against a powerful Brown aggregation. It is the same Bruin outfit that set back the Crimson Jayvees last month...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Cagers Hit Brown Tonight | 1/8/1947 | See Source »

Died. Carrie Jacobs Bond, 84, whose sentimental ballads (I Love You Truly, Just A-wearyin' for You, A Perfect-Day) have become almost U.S. folk songs; in Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 6, 1947 | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

...Last September, Davis, attired in a yachting cap, double-breasted blue jacket with a saucer-sized gold highway badge pinned on the inside, astounded his guests with the simple announcement: "You're looking at the next President of the United States." Later he disclosed that "I have the perfect defense against the atomic bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A Little Modest | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

Behind the discreet curtains of the cafes, crowds jam the tables drinking wine or coffee and eating little plates of grilled shrimp or fried baby octopus tentacles. Silent, grey-coated policemen stand discreetly in the background with little to do. Order is so perfect that Spaniards-against all their temperament-wait for the green light before they cross the streets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Behind the Windbreaks | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

...tendons (which the foot could get along without), from his thigh, slippery tissue for the tendons to slide on; from his calf, sections of nerve; from his hip, a piece of flank bone. Transplanted, these body materials in a few weeks gave the soldier a new hand, not perfect, but good enough to do carpentry with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Surgeons Report | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

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