Word: excellently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...whose fathers were members of the armed forces, business executives, politicians, lawyers, farmers, or abstract scientists, she found that boys outnumbered girls six to five. But, she reports in Science, the ratio was exactly reversed in those families where the fathers had taken up professions in which women often excel men-as actors, social workers, teachers, fiction writers and artists...
...Delicate Thread. Russia, said he, has supremacy in the air today "over most of the world's land mass. We excel them only in the quality of our long-range bombers and in numbers of atomic bombs. On this single fact, our security hangs by a delicate thread...
When a girl finishes Vassar, she's supposed to be good at everything and excel at nothing. This is the theory of a liberal arts education...