Word: superably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the other 500 men of the former crew of the U.S.S. Pitt will vouch that they have never known of any one person who used adjectives more dramatically or profusely than Lieut. Commander Goodrich, no matter whether he was instructing, explaining, praising or more especially reprimanding with super-adjectival expletives...
...millions," said PM-but conceded that this was probably not the best way to strike a blow at race prejudice.) In the Hearstpapers-which painstakingly reviewed Frankie's association with left-wing groups, his 4-F draft status, his crooning activities during the war, his meeting with ex-super-pimp Charles "Lucky" Luciano in Havana-little-noted Columnist Mortimer suddenly attained the stature of a Dreyfus, and a fortune's worth of publicity...
Roszika Dolly, of the once-famed Dolly Sisters, who danced from World War I right on through the '20s, survived a derailment of the Santa Fe's Super Chief near Raton, N.Mex. The car she was in overturned; Roszika, now Mrs. Irving Netcher, and 54, broke her left arm. Police fished through the wreckage and recovered her jewels-about $300,000 worth...
Producer David O. Selznick, who is credited with writing the screenplay himself (from a Niven Busch novel), spent an unprecedented amount of money on this picture (reported to be $6 million, plus $2 million for promotion). By giving moviegoers a sort of super-sumptuous scrapbook of all the titillating, sure-fire elements that experience has convinced him they want, he figured to earn his millions back-plus a sizable profit. Box-office returns in Los Angeles, where Duel has been showing simultaneously in two theaters for the last couple of months (and is reportedly outgrossing Gone With the Wind...
Stockpiles of materials (such as super-pure graphite bricks for uranium piles) have been assembled. Plans for the great machines are already far advanced. There will be assorted cyclotrons, a synchrocyclotron, and other vast "accelerators" which are too newly designed to have names. Their powers will range to one billion volts...