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Word: excellent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...main strength of the squad lies in the middle and distance runners. Bill Gillen and Dave Spinney look good in the 1000 yard run, while Jim Schlaeppi and Jack Brown deserve mention in the two mile run. Al Gordon and Dave Rosenthal and Joel Landan excel in the dashes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LINING THEM UP | 12/7/1955 | See Source »

...noted that it is three times that of the Soviet Union with its much larger population. It is the result of free choice. No governmental decree forces men and women into work that is repugnant to them. And because people do work that they like, they strive to excel, and so become competitive and more productive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The Basic Assets | 10/17/1955 | See Source »

...such productions as Sleeping Beauty, Sadler's Wells puts on the kind of ballet no U.S. company can match. But Sadler's Wells has always tried manfully to prove that it could also excel in a style more up-to-date than storybook romanticism. Its success in this field has been indifferent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pirouette & Pageantry | 9/26/1955 | See Source »

...school, they should not always be allowed to lead, should be encouraged to join in activities in which they do not excel, learn not to feel unhappy when they are not running things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Bright Youngsters | 9/19/1955 | See Source »

...capital investment. They treat their Bantu workers with the same assiduous paternalism shown by the Congo state. For its 63,000 black dependents, the Union Minière furnishes attractive brick bungalows and good schools, prenatal care and milk for mothers and children, medals for the men who excel at their work in the mines. "This is capitalism as it works in the Congo," said one industrialist proudly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGO: Boom in the Jungle | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

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