Word: superably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...profit. In this game the late, great Knute Rockne (an end) and Gus Dorais (a quarterback) put on a great passing show. Until three years ago, Notre Dame had a top-heavy edge of 22 victories to five losses. Then, while Leahy was off to war, Army's super-dupers, led by the great Davis & Blanchard, humbled the proud Irish two years in a row, 59-0, 48-0. But, until last week, a Blaik-coached Army eleven had never scored on a Leahy-coached Notre Dame team...
Every good advertising man has enough Irish to know that a pat phrase should be hit hard with a mike. Super-Salesman Chuck Luckman, who has that kind of Irish, and has rounded up the nation's sharpest advertising talent to help sell his food-conservation campaign, last week was still plugging his favorite theme. He crowed jubilantly: "We are rolling. The people are picking this up." And he added a flat prediction. Around Jan. 1, he said, the Save-Food program for Europe will reach its 100-million-bushel goal...
...goopish trick to keep their coffee from sloshing into the saucer: stick a spoon in the cup. Now science has come up with a trick worth two of that. Last week Westinghouse proudly announced an invention which it called the most important since the development of the spring: a super shock-absorber system that promises to smooth out the roughest roadbed. Now a passenger will be able to stroll the length of the train without sitting on a stranger...
...Squash Courts." Though the U.S. and British zones have been merged since last winter, there has not been time enough to erase national idiosyncrasies. In some aspects the British zone is as British as Weston super Mare. Approaching the medieval city gate of Lübeck, one can scarcely see the gate for the sign on it: TO THE SQUASH COURTS...
...money, and buy needed goods in the world's cheapest markets; 3) decide how much European nations shall contribute to their own reconstruction. Above all, the corporation would check up continuously to make sure that U.S. aid was not being misused. In short, he wanted a sort of super-WPB to run the whole thing. With such a businesslike approach, Aldrich thought that his corporation would also attract direct investment in western Europe by private U.S. corporations, thus speed the job of rebuilding...