Word: excellent
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...matter how significantly they equal or excel their male counterparts intellectually, there must be a fifteen to twenty-year hiatus in their intellectual life while they (most of them) fulfill their traditional role as mothers and/or "home-makers...
...inspirational terms. "The real reason for undertaking the space program," says one Apollo defender, Physicist Harold Urey, who is quoted in Journey to Tranquility, "is an innate characteristic of human beings, namely, some curious drive to try to do what might be thought to be impossible-to try to excel in one way or another." Urey compares such drives to the devotion that led to the building of the Parthenon and St. Peter's, which represented real sacrifice for many people. The space program, Urey concluded, "is our cathedral." The authors give Urey his due, but they point...
Those who have heard both Brel and Stone know that Elly is more than an interpreter of the composer; she is a soul sister whose versions often excel those of their creator. That is fortunate; it will be some time before Jacques Brel recrosses the Atlantic. He professes love for Americans in America, but he will not pay a visit to the U.S. until the war in Viet Nam is over. He is-literally-Up in the air about his present career. He has but one important possession, a private airplane, in which he darts about the Continent...
...Cochran, one of the 40 now attending Northeastern, said. "But police are becoming more educated overall. It used to be that policemen learned by experience only, and they did a beautiful job. But now there are more well trained officers, and there is more competition within the department to excel. Education can have an enormous effect as far as changing viewpoints is concerned...