Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past all sorts of people have found the Current Affairs Test engaging-as a challenge to their knowledge of the news, and as a contest in which it is not easy to get a perfect score. Once, the warden of Clinton Prison, Dannemora, N.Y., gave the test to 200 of his brightest inmates under the most durable of honor systems. They averaged, according to the warden, 86 per cent. That's not bad, as the millions of TIME readers, students, and others who have taken the tests, can testify...
...Once our white faces and 'high noses' were enough," he said. "Now we will have to be known for what we are." Said Willi C. Newbern, 46, who first went to China in 1925: "I expect there will be a certain disillusionment with Christianity. Missionaries are not perfect, but we tried to live model Christian lives. Some of the American pilots . . . well, it was probably a reaction to the experiences they had undergone...
...will appear in the registration envelopes of all returning members of '46, states: "Unlike past polls this one is primarily serious. Since the poll is completely anonymous, frank answers to frank questions are expected. However, if you think we have no business asking you certain questions, you have a perfect right to ignore them...
...Baptist Dr. Frank Tripp of Montgomery, Ala.: "It should be stated that so far as the Southern Baptist Convention is concerned, Dr. Newton did not go to Russia as a representative of the Convention and is not authorized to speak as a representative of the Convention, but . . . has a perfect right to express himself as an individual...
...encouragement worked well. Potato production in 1943 reached an all-time high of 464,999,000 bushels, there was plenty for all. But last week the Government was reaping a bumper crop of wastage from the seed it had so generously sown. Perfect weather and DDT combined with the Government incentive to boost this year's crop to a near-record...