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Word: superably (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lines alternate about every five minutes no matter which team has the ball. Coach Wilkinson thinks it is good for morale to let everybody help to score the touchdowns. In the era of super-coaching, when defensive and offensive adjustments are made up to the instant the ball is snapped, a new type of football player is in demand. The first quality Wilkinson and other topflight coaches look for, even in linemen: ability to react quickly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Big Four | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...this suggests, and here I am at the third level, that education is all a matter of money like everything else, war, scientific advance, even religion to a large extent. Given a good place to sit in (and a luxury super library to read in) anybody with the financial stuff can become an educated citizen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sever Seats Alarm | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...fashion in finishes was once fire or flood, but recently the doomsters have gone atomic or bacteriological. Stewart is a measles man-"super-measles"-but he has no stomach to describe the death agonies he inflicts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Doomster | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...usual sureseater formula is simple: give moviegoers what they rarely get in standard cinemansions-a single feature, no popcorn, well-behaved next-seat neighbors, super-comfortable seats and, most important, high-quality pictures from Britain, France, Italy and sometimes even Hollywood. Some 70 of the U.S. sureseaters show this kind of film exclusively; the rest, as often as they can get them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sureseaters | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

Plutonium is trickier. It is made in a pile consisting of natural uranium (mostly U-238) rods imbedded in super-pure graphite. When everything is just right, a chain reaction starts. Plutonium can be separated from _ uranium by comparatively simple chemical refining. But the piles themselves are not simple. If they don't work just right, they don't work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Striking Twelve | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

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