Word: superably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congress and state legislatures had appropriated millions to build super highways on which speeders could kill themselves at higher speeds. The traffic light, the yellow line, the parking lot, the parking meter, the underground garage, the one-way street, the motorcycle cop and the traffic ticket had all blossomed amid the monoxide fumes-and traffic had gone right on getting thicker and noisier year by year...
...severest critics of his private life. Last week, Durocher got back his old job as manager of the Dodgers. There was also something in it for well-liked Burt Shotton, who had subbed for Durocher and won Brooklyn the 1947 pennant. He will become a sort of super-manager over the Dodgers' 26 farm clubs...
Writing about this Brave New World in 1932, Aldous Huxley described the human hatching & conditioning centers, where everyone was taught his place. The highest were a super class of executives known as Alphas, the lowest were Epsilons, or sewer workers, who were taught Ford's memorable words: "History is bunk...
...Palaces. The pilots were blond, boyish Clifford Evans, 27, an ex-A.A.F. pilot, and stubby, pot-bellied George Truman*, 39, a veteran flying instructor. Last summer they wangled two used Super Cruiser airframes from Piper Aircraft, engines from Lycoming, Gyrosyn compasses from Sperry and radio, equipment from Bendix. They ripped out the passenger seat behind the pilot's seat and installed 100-gallon tanks, packed in a few charts, radio spares, a can of dope (i.e., glue) for repairing the wing fabric, one good suit and a white shirt apiece. Early in August, they kissed their wives goodbye...
...Much Glim. In Mt. Penn, Pa. (pop. 3,700), housewives got-and promptly tried-free samples of "Glim," a super-sudsy detergent made by General Aniline & Film Corp. Within a few hours, tons of grease that had accumulated in sewage pipes over the years were cut loose and the town's small sewage plant was virtually buried in bubbles, which overflowed onto neighboring lawns. General Aniline cleaned up the mess with "Chat,' another detergent that makes no suds...