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Word: excellent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Martin Luther King is "too religious" and Stokely Carmichael is "self-defeating"). Judy is disappointed that the colleges are apparently more interested in her color than her talent. She complains: "It's defeating to find out that after all your years of striving and attempting to excel in school, that it comes down to the issue of your race again-and the de-emphasis of the individual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Universities: Courting the Negro | 4/28/1967 | See Source »

Both Davidson and Martin are aiming for a theater life for Los Angeles that will compare with or excel Broadway's best. They've got a good start. By last week, the Taper had virtually sold out its first season with more than 30,000 subscriptions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Stage: Three in the West | 4/21/1967 | See Source »

...Mary Martyr is a game in which women excel. The participant undertakes all manner of thankless tasks with no sign of complaint, "except for the darkening circles under her eyes," until some kind soul "tries to relieve her of her overload-which ruins everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laity: Ploys for the Pious | 2/17/1967 | See Source »

...evaluation is an interesting incentive to take tutorial and excel in it, but Wald insists that "the tutorial must ride on inherent interests alone...

Author: By W. BRUCE Springer, | Title: Biology Tutorial Is Not Required For Honors...But It Might Help | 9/30/1966 | See Source »

...high school talented athletes devote almost all their time to sports without warping their school life. It takes a lot more effort to excel at the intercollegiate level, and yet at the same time, with all Harvard's institutional activity, the athlete wants to spend less, not more, time at practice...

Author: By Boisfouillet JONES Jr., | Title: THE SENIOR SLUMP: Upperclassmen Fade Away in Athletics | 6/16/1966 | See Source »

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