Word: perfected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What a sales portfolio would I and thousands of Studebaker salesmen have in a TIME carrying in one issue the ads of all companies that cooperate with Studebaker in making CHAMPION the great Champion it is. For instance, Firestone Champion tires, Champion plugs, Lockheed brakes, Willard batteries, Timken bearings, Perfect Circle rings, Carter carburetors, and other items...
...dread of war jabbed deep into U. S. citizens when New York City's Transportation Board observed that rock-cut subways would make perfect bombproof shelters, when policemen were assigned to power stations, docks and vital factories to guard against sabotage...
Southern California, scene of the mighty creative labors of Screenland, is not notable for cultivation of the more modest arts and crafts. Walter Conrad Arensberg, one of the quietest and most discriminating U. S. collectors of modern art, has said that in Hollywood he enjoys the most perfect vacuum America can produce. A symbol of this condition has long been the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art. Supported by the County of Los Angeles, it has boasted a beautiful lawn, a superb collection of fossils, and, since the last one was fired early in Depression, no art curator...
...Bemelmans tales will bear reading to little tots. One such is the story of Putzi, a premature baby who lived in a jar of alcohol on its parents' mantelpiece, became a hero when his father discovered he was a perfect barometer, sinking to the bottom on approach of bad weather, bobbing to the top, with "a Lilliputian smile and rosy cheeks," at the approach of fair...
COLD STEAL-Alice Tilton-Norton ($2). Leonidas Witherall's new house near Boston is perfect except for a corpse in the garage. Not so mysterious but light-hearted and amusing...