Word: superhumanize
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...outrode death as a race-track driver, a World War I ace and an airline operator had learned much on the Pacific that he wanted to tell the U.S. He spoke of the ordeal of American boys on the Pacific battlefronts ; begged war workers to make superhuman efforts to turn out more goods. Said he: "If they could bring the combat troops back here and put them in the factories we would have production doubled in 30 days' time...
...thoughts of her husbank under the rain of Nazi pilot in her own backyard. Her natural reactions to this terrifying experience are not sacrificed in an artificial attempt to be melodramatic. With thoughts of her husband under the rain of Nazi bombs, she could have been made to assume superhuman qualities by overcoming her armed adversary; rather, she acted as any woman would have--scared to death herself, thinking of her sleeping children upstairs...
Almost concealed by the weight of burlesque applied with superhuman travail by Maxie lies the counterpart of the message of social snobbery which J. P. Marquand gave to the world in the now famous "Pulham." Harvard's intellectual snobbery, a form of the disease as distasteful as its social counterpart and even more prevalent around Cambridge, deserves a shellacking, but the heavy hand of Hollywood molded Maxie's opus into the general style of belly-laugh comedies, abandoning all thought of satire...
...pleasant to have one's name associated, even by implication, with isolationists and Nazi propagandists. It is most unjust in the present case in view of the superhuman efforts of the organization which I head to perform its share of the defense job. In tne December issue of The American Magazine, Donald M. Nelson lists The Maytag Company's defense program among his case histories of "magnificently inspiring voluntary cooperation...
Myth. In the eyes of most Russians, Semion Budenny is something superhuman. They say that in the Revolution he and his horsemen struck like lightning, that ever since he has been a fine thunderbolt of a man. His was the revolutionary cry which swept southwestern Russia: "Proletarians, to horse!" Such speed did he command that sometimes (the legend goes) he personally fought in half a dozen sectors at once. With five men, the peasants say, he routed an army under Denikin. His praise, it is said, made men warm in winter; he could kill with no other ammunition than unprintable...