Word: excellent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bitsy Grant in the famed Seabright tournament last summer), the Murphy twins have no intention of becoming "tennis bums" (amateur players who tour the circuit of bigtime tournaments and live on the clubs' "expense accounts"). They want jobs as basketball coaches, a game at which they also excel...
...TIME'S apologies to high-standing Dr. Kopetzky, whose personal loyalty to his Hippocratic Oath TIME did not question. Dr. Kopetzky said in his speech: "Where recompense is not suit ably graduated for human endeavor, the desire to excel diminishes and finally there is no adequate stimulus for endeavor." TIME further erred in reporting that Dr. Kopetzky had for months been criticizing the National Health Program. The critic was The New York Medical Week (Dr. Kopetzky, editor...
...evidence of television's need for union with cinema Cinemagnet Griffis pointed to the great cost of hooking up television stations by cable. Cheaper procedure is that of filming television programs, sending the films to transmitters. His additional argument for canned television: "Televised movies must excel any performance acted directly for the television transmitter...
...proselyting. The average man's loss is the brilliant man's gain, it seems. Then there is the allied question of the merits of a "concentrated" education versus a "broad B. A.," degree, both sides of which have their exponents. But brilliant National Scholarship men are seldom likely to excel in a variety of fields; they tend to have one specific objective. Hence they prefer specialized training, which throws their weight into the "concentrated" side of the scale...
After researching four representative U. S. families, LIFE invited top-flight architects to draw plans for them. From a lay point of view all eight houses appeared eminently practical and livable,* but in looks the moderns seemed to excel...