Word: superably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...board's 20 testmakers, not satisfied yet, are working out the super test of tomorrow: something that will measure new aspects of the student's personality. By making him perform the same simple operation over & over, for example, they hope to figure out his "persistence quotient" (one reason why steady, mediocre tortoises sometimes nose out brilliant but unstable hares...
Seldom had a top-rank businessman given business such a rawhiding. When Charles Luckman, 37-year-old president of Lever Bros. (Lux, Spry, Pepsodent), rose up in Chicago's Stevens Hotel last week to address the Super Market Institute, nearly every word...
Working with the Psycho-Acoustic laboratory since its inception, S. Smith Stevens, professor of Psychology, has directed the wartime achievements of the laboratory and worked simultaneously on several other acoustical projects also sponsored by the super-secret Office of Scientific Research and Development. Stevens, whose work is now partially sponsored by the Navy, has brought his research work practically to a standstill as he has taken over de facto direction of the vast reconstruction of the main part of the Memorial hall basement into psychological and physiological laboratories which will go into operation sometime in January or February under Edwin...
...Japs were counting on three new hybrid super-worms, all developed this year, to produce 20% of next year's silk. Most successful love match has been between a male moth called "Tranquillity" and a female called "Long Security." After three to five hours of blissful embrace last week, Long Security produced 500-600 eggs. Her partner's ardor was then cooled by a night in a refrigeration room. Refreshed, he was introduced next day to a new Long Security, curled up for the morning's work. He was then carried happily off to be ground...
...Super-Hiroshimans. Not all authorities were as pessimistic as Dr. Muller. A four-man U.S. commission was about to leave for Japan to observe the genetic effect of the bomb's radiation on the people of Hiroshima. Some geneticists believed that the next Hiroshima generation or so would show many bad mutations. But most would be eliminated by the law of the survival of the fittest. The few superior mutations would survive to improve the race...