Word: excellence
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minimum if any company is to survive and make a profit. New uses for materials must be discovered, new products developed, and old products must be revamped and refurbished to meet and to whet the public taste for novelty and perfection. Back of this feverish struggle to excel, to beat the other fellow, to win customers, is the intensive search for and investigation of facts which we call research. It is a function applying to all activities of business and industry...
...LlFE will not only amuse but record in pictures our history. I recall as a boy many times going over bound copies of Harper's recording (by drawings)the Civil War. It is still a valuable record. With the modern and Eastman (ad for Rochester) film you can excel that record. May you do so. The film is mightier than the pen. WILLIAM H. GORSLINE Rochester...
...John Rhodes, are awarded annually on the basis of scholastic and literary abilities; moral qualities; under which are considered manhood, truth, courage, and fellowship; force of character and leadership; physical vigor, as demonstrated by interest in outdoor sports. As the committee is on the watch for men who will excel in a particular field, intellect and character will receive more emphasis than the quality of physical vigor...
Much as Vogue bolsters up U. S. feminine morale in the struggle to excel in beauty & charm against all comers, so Esquire sought to cry courage to U. S. males with an article claiming to be based on five months of U. S. feminine research in Cuba and points South. "It is a common belief all over the world that Latin men are the best lovers and Americans the worst," declared Esquire. "This is a hoax...
...voice and she returned to Spain, lived out of doors, burned countless candles to the Virgin Mary, waited for months without attempting to speak. When she returned to the Metropolitan in 1921 she established herself still more strongly with the Opera's subscribers. There was no one to excel her as Manon, Juliette, Mélisande, Violetta in La Traviata, Mimi in La Bohème, Fiora in L'Amore...