Word: superably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Probably at least one of the tunnels would be big enough to handle a full-sized super-rocket, testing 1) its reactions on its roaring rise through the atmosphere; 2) its flight through empty space, where utter cold makes many metals lose their strength; 3) its meteor plunge to earth, heated perhaps near incandescence by friction with denser...
...British Producer J. Arthur Rank spent something like $5,000,000 to make a super movie spectacle of a play by George Bernard Shaw...
When his Lordship first arrived with milk, class-conscious housewives were somewhat embarrassed. Today the van's super service and Baron Digby's affable, businesslike manner have ended all that. Not only does he supply rich milk (at the regulation fivepence a pint), but the van is loaded with vegetables, flowers and fresh fruit, grown on Lord Digby's larger estate at Minterne, a mile away...
...citizens in general of Adamic's logic and tendency, Dinner at the White House is sprightly reading in parts. The old ban against quoting the President's most casual remarks without permission is now off in Franklin Roosevelt's case. The result is a kind of super-Winchellian account of White House gossip, undoubtedly the first of many. Sample: at dinner F.D.R. mentioned that ex-King Carol of Rumania wanted to come to the U.S., "but of course we can't let him in." Mrs. Roosevelt: "Franklin...
...most part, Smithsonian scientists stuck to "description," that amiable super-hobby which leads learned men to scour the earth for rarities. Working always on a shoestring, they explored the West, dug up dinosaurs, collected insects, mollusks, birds, minerals...