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...DOLLAR VALUE," cried one ad. Up for sale was 75% interest in a company with "$200,000.00 in losses sustained in past three years available for carryover . . ." i.e., for credit against future profits. Then the Journal noticed an ad for another company: "FEED MANUFACTURER . . . $3,000,000 yrly. gross. Excel. plant & buildings appraised at over $500,000. Long record of earnings . . . Full price less than...
Olympic gymnasts must excel in all six events; the points they make in each specialty are totaled, first for individuals, then for their team. The high team total wins the Olympic title. Thus, the few specialists developed by the U.S. have actually dragged down the team's total in past Olympics and proved more hindrance than help to their more versatile fellows...
Thank you for your Dec. 3 article, "Back to Chancery." Children who are taught only "Renaissance calligraphy" (we call it manuscript) learn to read much quicker, easier, and faster than when taught cursive writing. Also, children who are taught manuscript writing excel in spelling...
...dear old Princeton. A serious youth, he rates his serious interests in this order: 1) friends, 2) studies, 3) football. He plays the game because he likes it;† he plays superlatively well because, starting with a good share of natural ability, he also has a burning zeal to excel, which has made him a meticulous attender to details. At practice, he wants to know the reason for every split-second step in every play; once he is convinced, he practices until he has it, muscle-perfect...
...Czechoslovakia, the Red regime complained that overeager soccer players were threatening to wreck the five-year plan "with their determination to excel at all costs, even to the extent of injuring other players." Announced Defense Minister Dr. Alexej Cepicka: ."Our soccer players are still playing in order to win, and not to prepare themselves physically for the defense of their country. This bourgeois filthiness has got to stop...