Word: superably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knows why the pole shifts. No one even knows why the earth is a magnet. Madill has a theory that the pole moves in an irregular orbit, completing its slow cycle in a matter of centuries. He keeps watch on its movements, working through a corps of super-tough field men. They have to be tough: observations in comfortable latitudes are helpful but not sufficient. Pole spotters have to travel into the Arctic where the pole hides out. This year three Madillmen surrounded the pole, set up delicate instruments to chart its lines of magnetic force...
...were packed and read)' to sail to Germany. Then the State Department suddenly took back its permission for them to leave the U.S. In their almost bare $35-a-month New York City apartment, balding Gerhart Eisler spouted "ridiculous . . . stupid . . . nonsense" at the idea that he was a super-secret agent of Kremlin policy...
...outdoor advertising has boomed again. This year the industry will do a record $100 million worth of business, and Leigh, with signs in 19 cities, will gross over $2 million. His signs now blow real smoke rings, show coffee cups that exude real steam, and a giant box of Super Suds that spouts 5,000 large bubbles a minute. Forthcoming are a three-story soda pop ad in which full glasses will effervesce real balloons, some of which will contain tickets entitling the holder to a free drink, and a blimp-sized orange that will seem to drip juice into...
...relatively poor performance at the polls, several political divergencies have appeared. Foreign Minister Molotov recently had to slap down a suggestion by SED Leader Otto Grotewohl that Poland might give up some of the German territory she got at Potsdam. Grotewohl also objects mildly to Russia's super-combine of German industries in the Russian zone (TIME, Aug. 26) and to her peace-delaying tactics (cried he in an interview with TIME: "Please, a peace treaty! And quickly...
...that Miss O'Brien is a bad actress. She is a remarkably good one, with versatility, genuine feeling, and all the trimmings. The trouble lies in the basic idea of putting child actresses on the screen in big parts, an idea which leads almost inevitably to super-sanguinity, tedious tear-jerking, and a total lack of sex-appeal...