Word: excels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Marx was violently controversial in Jerusalem, for a group of remarkably well trained Marxist debaters was in the student body, and the left-wing press soon began to attack him. But Taubes had to admit that the Communists in Israel have a uniquely trained cabal of students who excel both in study and in debate...
Huntington emphasized that conservatives are skeptical about the worth of economics, "the one field in which liberals excel." Political and moral exertions, such as national security and defense, are more important to them he said...
Former first man at St. Paul's, James Hammond is in the third position on the team. Tony Ostheimer is fourth, and Douglas Gardner fifth. Ostheimer played at Middlesex, but Gardner is playing for the first time. All three excel at hard shots down the sides that keep their opponents...
...such treatment is evidently insufficient for Princeton's Homer Smith. Not content with a six-paragraph squib about him in its football brochure, the Princeton department of public relations has published a five-page biographical tribute to "a tremendous competitor who is determined to excel in whatever he does...
...College of the University of Chicago, Dean F. Champion Ward trotted out statistics to prove that Robert Maynard Hutchins' ten-year-old "Great Books" curriculum is a success. Students who have set their own pace through a Hutchins-type education, said Dean Ward, excel in almost every field. In nationwide graduate-record exams, 99% of the Chicago scholars placed in the upper third of the group. In the biological sciences, arts, vocabulary and social studies, 98% got better-than-median grades. Some 86% were above the median in physical sciences, literature, general mathematics and effective expression...