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Word: superbeings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great practical joke, on which the Americans who are giving the Greeks their weapons are also victims. Fodor writes so well and develops his plot with such quiet skill that the reader may think at first that the story is another realistic war experience and not the superb comedy of modern times that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Outstanding Story Redeems Spring Advocate | 4/9/1948 | See Source »

Thanks for pulling off some of TIME'S irritating layers of anonymity in the superb behind-the-scenes glimpse offered in "The Story of an Experiment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 29, 1948 | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

...picture of Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr on the cover, and the article with it are among the best summaries on both a man and a philosophy of religion, as well as a philosophy of an Age, that I have ever read. A really superb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 29, 1948 | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

...distinctly the star of the evening. She sang her part well technically; but more than that she sang with perfect feeling for the sincere, restrained emotion characteristic of the Handel-Milton combination. Instead of the colorless clarity used for Handel by British sopranos like Isobel Baillie she brought a superb temperate richness to her part...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral | 3/24/1948 | See Source »

...Shea, the superb dribbler, had never looked so good. Brennan and Barnhorst had forgotten all about their ailments, and both sides had forgotten all about the Y.M.C.A. way basketball used to be played. Players exchanged scowls and heated words; the referees broke up one fist fight only to have another threaten. At one point, the referee wanted to keep an N.Y.U. player from shooting a foul until the hooting stopped; the player grabbed the ball, glared at the crowd, and sank one. In the final five minutes, harassed N.Y.U. lost its head completely. When the game ended, 51 personal fouls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Upset in the Garden | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

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