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Word: perfection (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Years ago, in the old Savile Club in London, I heard the late Poet Laureate Dr. Bridges quote your limerick [TIME, March 27, April 24] in what seems a more perfect form -as a spoof on Berkeley, which of course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 15, 1939 | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

Eventually paroled, Robert entered a teachers' college at Tempe, Ariz. His classmates found him hard to understand, envied his ability to wangle high marks with hardly any study. His teacher of public speaking was puzzled when Robert handed in an outline for a speech entitled "Murder," describing a "perfect crime." Recently Robert's acquaintances noticed that he was acting even more queerly than usual. He moved out of his dormitory, took a room in a hotel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Model | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...when its co-chairmen-suave Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes (North), slight Bishop John Monroe Moore (South), Dr. James H. Straughn (Methodist Protestant)-said simultaneously: "This we do reverently in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit." The unison would have been perfect except that Bishop Moore said "Holy Ghost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Methodist Merger | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

Died. Alfred Winny, 99, voted England's perfect servant, for 72 years in the service of the Churchill-Marlborough family and at his death butler to Lady Edward Spencer-Churchill; of old age; in Windsor, England. Winny despised the cinema, often observed that he was thankful his mistress did not go in for cocktail parties. He died in Lady Edward's best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 8, 1939 | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...paintings, put it together with sparkling good sense and humor. For each picture they provided background information, illuminating quotations, graceful homilies. In their observations on portraits of the late John D. Rockefeller (by John Singer Sargent) and J. P. Morgan (by Carlos Baca-Flor), they achieved a tone of perfect respect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Art Traps | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

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