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Word: perfections (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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JUST REACHED P. 50 MAY 20 TIME. ALL WORLD INCLUDING NATIONAL PLASTICS AUTHORITY DR. G. KLINE. NATIONAL BUREAU OF STANDARDS. KNOWS THAT JOHN WESLEY HYATT FOUNDED PLASTICS INDUSTRY WHEN HE ESTABLISHED CELLULOID CORP.. COMPANY WHICH WAS FIRST TO PERFECT CELLULOSE ACETATE PLASTIC WHICH THEY CALLED LUMAR-ITH. REFER YOU TO DR. KLINE'S REVIEW OF PLASTICS IN AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY, P. 198, MAY 1940, SOCIETY OF AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERS JOURNAL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 17, 1940 | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

...struggle was protracted and fierce. Suddenly the scene has cleared. The crash and thunder has momentarily, but only for the moment, died away. The miracle of deliverance achieved by the valor and perseverance, perfect discipline, faultless service, skill and unconquerable vitality is a manifesto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British War Report: Winston Churchill to Commons | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

...cream-of-the-crop golfers who qualified for last week's tournament were: happy-go-lucky Jimmy Demaret (winner of half the tournaments on the winter circuit), up-&-coming little Ben Hogan (who finished in the money in 16 tournaments this year), long-swatting Sam Snead, a mechanically perfect golfer, and onetime Open Champions Ralph Guldahl (1937-38) and Byron Nelson (1939)-none of them over 29 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: I Told You So | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

...Rome last week, good Roman Catholics crossed themselves, averted their eyes from posters which blossomed on walls here & there in the city. The posters carried a blasphemous "Prayer of the Perfect Italian Fascist," which clumsily parodied the ancient supplications of Christians: Credo I believe in England, zone of tyranny, creator of sanctions and Masonic gods, and in Eden, her son, our only axman, -who was conceived by virtue of Masonic and anti-Fas cist spirits, was born out of the League of Nations, will suffer always under the spirit of Mussolini, went down to Hell with his father. . . . I believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Black-out For the Vatican? | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

...night a priest burst into our camp and told us in perfect French that the Germans were in the neighborhood and we had better get out of town. Naturally our first impulse was to believe him-just out of respect to a man of the cloth-but then we noticed that he disappeared immediately, and we soon realized that he was a fifth-column agent . . . . We have observed that the Nazi fifth column is efficiently organized to an unbelievable extent, with the idea of creating panic among civilians, rousing them to evacuate towns in the area where the Nazis want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Those Who Looked at War | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

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