Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Feinberg's superb play at guard drew a "finest game since Chub Peabody" rating from the coach and a strong bid to start Saturday. Emil Drvaric was also impressive against Dartmouth. These two guards together may have prevented a third touchdown for the Indians...
Defensively, the Badgers were nothing short of superb, blanking the highly geared Yale offense for the first time in 20 consecutive games. Levi Jackson, Ferd Nadherny, and company broke through the stubborn Wisconsin forward wall for a mere 89 yards...
...collection of character studies, "Gus the Great" is superb; as a continuous story, it falls somewhat short of the mark. Mr. Duncan throws out a wealth of threads during his novel and has difficulty weaving them into a satisfactory knot at the climax. Important characters clash in a weird and incongruous way. While others are forgotten entirely. But regardless of the flaws in its construction, "Gus the Great" is a monumental work, showing both penetrating insight and real sympathy for the circus...
...amazing paradox of "Dark Passage" is that some of the seenes, although destroying the movie, are superb. One incident involving Bogart and a lonely taxi driver has brilliant dialogue and real human feeling. This and the splendid acting of Agues Moorchead as a pestiferous, petulant "femme fatale" give the show its only speed. When Bogart and Miss Bacall get together the picture moves along at a lazy snail's pace. During the last reel the two lovers hike off to Peru, presumably forever. This seems like a very fine idea...
...just two centuries after Frederick succeeded to the throne of Prussia, superb German armies were flanking the Maginot Line and swiftly conquering France. Their spirit and their motive were still, to an almost incredible degree, the same as Frederick's in his great campaigns...