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Word: superably (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pounded the perfectionists who roared like lions when the San Francisco conference in 1945 didn't whip up a lovely world government. The all-or-nothing group is still moaning about the "lost chance," but Elliott declared that such a full-blown super-state, if somebody had tried to enforce it, would have torn the world to tatters right there and then. The men who framed the charter were practical, he said; they knew that the basic differences between the big powers were too great for paper laws to resolve...

Author: By David E. Lillenthal jr., | Title: Elliott Tags Soviets in World Politics | 2/20/1948 | See Source »

...country. It rates first in the profession and has turned out some of the leading people in our field. (But of course Harvard CRIMSON men know very little of physical education and the work being done in that profession. They are just interested in their own more acsthetic super-deluxe intellectual courses.) I only hope some of the Harvard men who have enjoyed the company of Sargent women have the initiative to denounce your very ignorant article. Our school, sir is one that has grown better every year and is considered "the Harvard" of physical education; but God forbid that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Protests Sargent Insult | 2/3/1948 | See Source »

Gaullist agents in the top balconies showered pamphlets on the crowd. From the prizefighting ring which served as a speaker's platform, Leon Gingembre said: "This super-fiscality will kill our economy by braking production. ... If you can't pay your taxes, send your tax forms back to your deputy and ask him to get you out of the mess he got you into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: 800,000 Iron Curtains | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

...headline in the Times gagged: 89,999 PAYING FANS AND BRESLIN TO SEE ROSE BOWL GAME. At week's end, Breslin and Michigan were both winners. Editor MacLellan, who had had his money's worth, sent Hitchhiker Breslin the money to come home in style, aboard the Super Chief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Going My Way? | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

...present, Clipson is trying to get into large-scale production while fighting off eager customers. Britons hope that his super-plaster, which permits builders to cut all sorts of corners, will boost the government's lagging housing program. In due course, non-Britons may stand in line for exports or patent licenses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Super-Plaster | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

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