Word: superhumans
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...Osten, has prepared for the 1936 Olympic Games, and in the extraordinary career of one of Germany's most celebrated cinemactresses. If President Hoover had made Jean Harlow a major functionary in the Olympic Games of 1932, it would have been explicable only as a tribute to the superhuman shrewdness of that young woman's press-agents. Herr Hitler last year awarded to an actress of comparable popularity exclusive permission to make cinema recordings of the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin next summer as part of a propaganda epic which will be shown later to German cinemaddicts throughout...
...Biblical "thee" and "thou" and his cultivation of the flowing and repetitive simplicity of oral narrative. The care that Moore lavished on every sentence in "The Brook Kerith" and "Heloise and Abelard" will excite the wonder of the uninitiated. Mr. Morgan's analysis of the results of this superhuman care is indeed subtle and illuminating. Yet even after such an analysis it is hard to see a revolution in fiction in the rhythms, the repetitions, and the intricate patterns of vowel-sounds that make the perfection of Moore's later prose. It takes more than these things to make...
...requires no superhuman gifts or previous experience, but rather demands good intelligence and the ability to learn under sympathetic direction. Aspirants for the Business Board are kept under the constant guidance of the experienced members of the Board. If under this tutelage they develop skill and ability, they are given wider discretion in seeking accounts, and not infrequently business candidates have been successful in developing new lines of business for the CRIMSON...
...perhaps the Ogpu's brightest idea from the viewpoint of entrenching the Ogpu as a permanent and self-supporting organ of the State. The idea: to embark on major Soviet Five-Year-Plan building projects with Ogpu prisoners for workers and the Ogpu Terror to goad them to superhuman efforts in completing the project on time. Greatest of such Ogpu projects thus far was the famed Stalin Canal (linking the White Sea via Lake Onega with the Baltic Sea), finished two years ago (TIME, Aug. 14, 1933). Uncensored sources told of men & women driven with whips amid the flare...
...thin, middle-aged woman stood in the darkened pit at the Chicago Opera House last week, waving a baton as if she believed it possessed some superhuman power. Her eyes blazed. She tossed her bushy head this way & that, pointed vigorous commands to the singers on the stage. Ethel Leginska had good reason to make much of the music, because she had written it. Hers was the distinction of being the world's first woman to conduct her own opera in an important opera house...