Word: superior
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From Unsatisfactory to Superior. This month at 47, Colonel Polich retires after 20 years of service; as a reservist and an engineer, bird colonel is about the highest peacetime rank he can achieve. His job at Fort Belvoir is completed. In four years he has raised Mech and Tech's efficiency rating from "unsatisfactory" to "superior," the military's top grade. The Army is gradually adopting some of his ideas in its other schools, and now Polich intends to employ his imaginative methods in civilian life by taking up one of the offers from the dozens of firms...
...International Telephone & Telegraph Corp., which announced last week that it may soon resume sales of foreign-made consumer equipment (radios, appliances, etc.) in the U.S., is already bringing in automatic post-office equipment made by its Belgian and German subsidiaries. Reason: I.T. & T. says that the equipment is technically superior to any available in the U.S. Manhattan's Lafayette Brass Manufacturing
...eleventh grade, confirmed as freshmen if they do well in the twelfth grade. He concedes one objection: it might only begin the multiple-application problem one year earlier. Yet the idea resembles the "early-decision" plan successfully but sparingly used by many select women's colleges. They pick superior eleventh-graders who aim at one particular college from the start; this year 25% of Wellesley's freshmen entered under the plan...
Last week Lou Kahn found himself unhappily pinpointed in the limelight. At the National Institute of Arts and Letters, Eero Saarinen awarded Kahn the institute's prized Brunner. Award as "a man who has used his superior gifts to tread the hard path of discovery rather than the easy way to success." A few days earlier Kahn had been present at the dedication of the $3,000,000 Alfred Newton Richards Medical Research Building on the University of Pennsylvania campus, about which Architect Philip Johnson predicts, "When this is finished, Kahn will be world-famous...
...ultimate most holy form of theory is action." ¶"Die every day. Be born every day. Deny everything you have every day. The superior virtue is not to be free but to fight for freedom...