Word: superbness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unfortunately, it does not take much of this to turn the hotel clerk into a genuine Hollywood cowboy, and as soon as he gets back to that Chicago hotel, he proceeds to demonstrate his he-manity. Superb in a steaming tub he sits, swigging his quart and sucking his Havana and languidly, when the spirit moves him, blasting away at the roaches on the walls with his trusty...
Without fanfare, the Palace of Monaco issued a fluffy communiqué: "Princess Caroline will be one year old [Jan. 23]. She now has six teeth. She weighs [roughly 22 Ibs.]. She is a superb child, laughing and gay, who loves to enjoy herself and is very sociable...
...even against such competition, Pettit's spectacular play put him in a class apart, just as it has all through this most impressive of his four pro seasons. Because of Pettit's basket-stuffing and superb all-round game, the St. Louis Hawks have a long lead in the Western Division of the N.B.A...
TIME'S excellent summary of a "cure" for industry's $1 billion hangover is a superb contribution to the awakening of business and industry to a responsibility...
...action fiber. How far the grasshopper leaps depends on the number of impulses it sends its leg muscles: one impulse produces a hop; two a "moderate jump"; three an all-out effort. Somehow the grasshopper gets all this done in one-thirtieth of a second. Marvels Grasshopperman Hoyle: "A superb example of natural economy...