Word: superably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Department of Engineering Sciences has three more projects. Professor Frederick V. Hunt is studying sound in his anechoic chamber, whose walls sponge up over 99 percent of every noise. Professor Howard H. Aiken is building his fourth super-brain calculating machine, faster and smarter than before. Professor Howard W. Emmons is working in mechanics...
...fact, artificial insemination has been seriously suggested as a means of produring a new super race here in America. H. J. Muller, Nobel Prize winner, and President of the American Genetic Society, in his book called "Out of the Night," recommended that the sperm of a group of selected men be injected into American women, producing a conglomerate mass of "perfectly human specimens...
...matter how much he wriggled, the Internal Revenue Bureau would grab his wrist, yank him off balance, hiss for quiet, and take his jelly beans away from him. If he tried to hide them, he ran a good chance of having his marbles, jackknife, ocarina and super-magnifying atom ring confiscated, and his pants warmed with a shingle...
...break a strike of sugar workers as it had previously broken strikes by printers and bakers. But if Evita was being retired, the process was so gradual as to defy detection. This week, she and her husband were to be co-starred in another of their super-colossal productions with a cast of thousands-descamisados and the army-celebrating the new constitution...
...invitations from Houston. They were in gold, on white doeskin. For this week's opening of his $21 million Shamrock hotel, hustling Oilman Glenn McCarthy had requested the company of a trainload of movie and radio stars. He had the forethought to rent a Santa Fe Super Chief to carry his guests free to Texas and back. As a St. Patrick's Day touch, McCarthy had ordered 2,500 shamrocks flown over from Eire...