Word: superman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...press reports we are informed that those rescued owe their lives to a "superman," who with Herculean strength closed the forward bulkhead door while the water was pouring through and the submarine sinking at a 45-degree angle...
...senior is a superman, or so he will read. He has never walked alone along the Charles, never indulged in bull sessions. He has banished the club man, the "C man" from Harvard. He is not the self-indulgent romantic his elder brother was; he is a social realist. Above all he is never indifferent and he thinks of himself only in terms of society as a whole. He is a socialist's dream-child. He bears a striking affinity to the authors of the article their hearts cross the left place...
...American Henley which had been running all morning was climaxed in the afternoon by the most spectacular contest of the day, as the trailing Crimson 150's put on a breath-taking superman spurt to pass the Yale lightweights for a full length within the last quarter mile. This gave them the Wright...
...racism of today results from the theories of Rousseau and Nietzsche and now we are hearing much of the latter's "superman." "He is leading his dance through the concentration camps and ghottes, the cities of China and Spain viscerated by bombs, and Europe maddened in the armament race and reversibly preparing for suicide...
...superman made the airplane," observed Professor Joad, "but the ape has got hold of it. To step on foot throttles, insert coins into metal slots, scan headlines, crowd through clicking turnstiles, turn on the radio, hurl ourselves over the surface of the earth in a mechanism propelled by petrol-these constitute the modern notion of entertainment...