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Word: superably (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brown spends a good deal more of his money (again as "Somebody") turning a theatrical warehouse into a super-canteen where the Deyo girls, Harry James, Xavier Cugat, Lena Home, Gracie Allen and Jimmy Durante entertain soldiers, sailors and cinemaddicts. In the end, Jean falls in love with a Texas onion-rancher in sergeant's uniform, and the way is clear for the girl with the million-dollar conscience to embrace the million-dollar blue-jacket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 19, 1944 | 6/19/1944 | See Source »

...word essay on 'Early Kentish Brass Rubbings' entitle you to the Pocahontas Mixture vacation offer, whereby you retire at sixty with most of your faculties impaired." He tells how a Mr. Bradley was drowned in his cellar with his wife and family ("I should have specified Sumwenco Super-Annealed Brass Pipe throughout [but] at least . . . under the Central American Mutual Perpetual Amortizational Group Insurance Plan our loved ones need not be reduced to penury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gloomy Debate | 6/19/1944 | See Source »

...well. By next evening the results were in. The icing condition had not developed. Instead of 200 planes, 41 had been lost. Four of the six targets had been smashed, the other two severely damaged. From that night on, Tooey kept them flying. In the comparatively brief time this super-power bombing had to work, it forced the Luftwaffe to become an in-&-out air force, fighting hard one day but refusing battle the next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF EUROPE: The Man Who Paved the Way | 6/12/1944 | See Source »

What the overall strength of the U.S. Air Forces will ultimately be is still the services' closely-held secret. But it was clearly already close to top. Still left were the jobs of providing replacements and building new models (like the Army's big B-29 Boeing Super Fortress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Impossible Job | 6/12/1944 | See Source »

Still unannounced are Pratt & Whitney's super-powered air-cooled engine, at which the services coyly hinted more than a year ago, Wright's secret power plant which has been in the works since before Pearl Harbor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: W for Power | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

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