Word: excellent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...able enough to forfeit our lives for our country are we not thus capable and worthy of at least a vote? Who can deny that modern youth is better informed, more serious and responsible, than ever before? And who can deny that our political judgment must, at the minimum, excel that of many voters of today--citizens who support Hamilton Fish by a three-to-one plurality, citizens who elect singing flour-salesmen to the Senate, citizen-suckers for vaudeville shows at political functions, citizen-cowards returning corrupt political machines year in and year out? Sturtevant Hobbs...
...books-the "authority over the imagination of mankind" which gives them their strong mythical enchantment. Nevertheless, some readers may find it hard to agree that Huckleberry Finn is "as dark a book as Moby Dick" still harder to agree that its bitterest lines-Huck's meditation on slavery-excel the best of Jonathan Swift. But discerning critics will be grateful for DeVoto's evaluation of the heroic role of Jim, for his mapping of the streaks of cruelty and abject, indigenous meanness which are too easily overlooked in the broad morning sunlight of Mark Twain's unliterary...
...known this all along, has used women in electrical assembly since the days of fancy aprons and high lace collars); 2) they are more immune to monotony than men, will keep at a tiresome job long after a man starts hanging around the canteen or water cooler; 3) they excel at inspection work where keen eyes and sensitive fingers often find flaws a man misses (Newton A. Woodworth, maker of engine parts, says it is easier to make a woman "quality conscious" than a man); 4) women workers are more docile than men workers; 5) last but not least, they...
Carleton was the first college to establish a biography department, has an excel lent astronomy department (with an observatory on the campus) and a famed department of international relations, for which President Cowling wangled $500,000 from the late Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg. Of Carleton's brilliant faculty, five are former college presidents...
...acting is compelling--no finer cast could have been assembled, particularly in the choice of the six girls, all of whom excel in the shrewdly and sympathetically drawn characters. The play, though, belongs to Grete Mosheim. To the role of Erna, her first appearance on the American stage, she brings a magnificent technique, an exciting individuality, a warmth and depth unexcelled, and gives the most merorable performance of the year...