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Word: superably (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which specializes in collecting the classics in the field and faithfully supports the worthy publishing ventures. The prices which some of the more prized volumes command are steep. H. P. Lovecraft's The Outsider sells for from $50 to $100, Vol. I No. 1 of Astounding Stories of Super Science for as high as $50. Several publishers estimate that from 30% to 40% of their readers are professional men, some of them scientists who read the stories for relaxation but with a sharp eye for scientific errors. Clubs are often organized by fans who hold regular discussion meetings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Never Too Old to Dream | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

Roscoe Pound, dean of the Law School, last night warned of dangers to the United States public "In regimenting the professions under a super-service state...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dean Pound Sees Arts Endangered | 5/26/1949 | See Source »

...dinner of the Massachusetts Medical Society in Worcester. "The professional ideal," Pound said, "is menaced by the development of great government bureaus and a movement to take over the arts practiced by the profession and make them functions of the government to be exercised by its bureaus in a super-service state which may become a service super-state...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dean Pound Sees Arts Endangered | 5/26/1949 | See Source »

...Capp's Li'l Abner. Editor Harry Guy Bartholomew, whose knowing tabloid touch had built the London Daily Mirror (circ. 4,400,000) into the world's biggest daily, thought that his even bigger weekend Pictorial audience (4,800,000) would eat up Capp's super-edible Shmoos as hungrily as U.S. readers had done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sacking of the Shmoo | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...When his super-centrifuge machine conked out and couldn't be repaired during the war, tousle-haired Biochemist John Vaichulis began looking around Illinois' Manteno State Mental Hospital for some other project to keep him busy. In one building on Manteno's grounds he found a group of patients who were never allowed to mix with other patients. They were the country's largest concentration of typhoid carriers, the backwash of a 1939 epidemic which swept Manteno, plus patients sent from other Illinois state hospitals to be isolated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: No More Typhoid Marys? | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

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