Word: excellence
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...music that the greatest composers in history had written for just four strands of tone. Today quartet playing has become so distinct a profession that no one but a specialist with years of experience would think of competing for big-league honors. Few quartet players ever even attempt to excel as soloists, and very few of the world's top-rank soloists make good quartet players...
...fellow historians would probably endorse Professor Commager's reading of U.S. history. But Professor Commager does not excel as a logician. He barely recognizes the value of the Supreme Court as a repository of what might be termed "sleeping" power. By the very fact of its existence the Court compels Congress to be careful of the phraseology of bills. And in a federal system, a Supreme Court is necessary as a tacit reminder to keep the legislatures of the 48 States from nullifying the powers of the Government in Washington. Conversely, a Supreme Court is also needed to protect...
Peanuts. A highly concentrated food, they excel as a source of the vitamin nicotinic acid. The Department of Agriculture expects peanut cultivation to jump from 5,000,000 to nearly 6,500,000 acres next year...
Square Holes. Lockheed Aircraft employs 600 handicapped workers (18 have Seeing Eye dogs) all at the same pay as other workers. R. A. Von Hake, vice president in charge of manufacturing, says they are "hard-hitting, dependable and capable. They seem determined to compete with or excel the physically normal workers and they put in extra effort." Two of Lockheed's blind workers proved inventive: Ted Bushnell, who runs a parts numbering machine, invented a foot pedal which upped the machine's production 50%. James Garfield devised an adjustment knob and a turn-on switch for his burring...
WAFS get military drill (at which they excel men), learn meteorology, navigation and other pilots' lore, wear coveralls while flying and, in general, are "processed" like men. But there are some variations. Example: Avenger's pin-neat barracks have walls of Nile green and white. The cream-colored lockers, where cosmetics and pink underthings are discreetly kept, are locked with hasps tastefully pegged with pink golf tees...